Press archive · A selection

After listening.
Words remain.

Reviews, interviews and features: selected perspectives on the quartet’s journey.

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From the archive

2025

“The differences generated richness and imagination, bringing forth an original, intense performance, charged with a feverish tension built on constant mutual listening.”
Stefano Crise — Archi Magazine Review · Italian piano quintets · Trieste
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“Refined and precise in Cavallone, they then offered an extraordinary performance of Schumann’s Piano Quintet.”
Vanity Her Review · Paolo Cavallone and Schumann · Treviso
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2024

“A lightness of touch matching the neoclassical transparency of the First Quartet, and a sorrowful intensity in the Third.”
OperaClick Review · Shostakovich cycle · Lucca
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2022

“Absolutely enchanting — a performance that makes you want to put the CD straight back in the player.”
Burkhard Schäfer — Musik & Theater, Zürich Review · Wolf-Ferrari · Brilliant Classics
“A remarkable performance, worthy of the finest chamber music ensembles.”
Alain Letrun — Clicmusique Review · Wolf-Ferrari · Brilliant Classics

2018

“A thousand plays of sound, unexpected phrasing and shifting harmonies made the composition feel entirely new.”
Le Salon Musical Review · MiTo SettembreMusica · Milan
“The quartet’s skill was further demonstrated in a perfectly balanced performance of Brahms’s Quartet in C minor, Op. 51.”
Alessandro Alfieri — Persinsala Review · IUC · Rome
“Great appreciation for the ensemble’s rapport, precision and, above all, the splendid sound of its young musicians.”
Umberto Asti — Teatro.it Review · Concerti della Sapienza · Rome

2017

“What matters is not knowing what sets us apart from other quartets, but being aware that we want to have something to tell through our music.”
Andrea Milanesi — Amadeus Interview · The human factor · Interview and cover story
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“Winning that award meant a great deal, and brought responsibilities: the only way forward was to study and improve concert after concert.”
Ravenna & Dintorni Interview · A conversation before Ravenna Musica
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2016

“A quartet is an intimate union in which every instrument plays its part within the score.”
Paolo Genzini — House of Violin Interview · Interview with Fabrizio Zoffoli
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“Chamber music has always been my greatest passion: sharing music with others makes every experience more complete.”
Paolo Genzini — House of Violin Interview · Interview with Alessandra Cefaliello
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2015

“For me it was a beautiful, profound and memorable experience, at the heart of music and instruments.”
Claudio Rampini — Il Portale del Violino Feature · A day inside the quartet’s rehearsal room
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2013

“Beneath the apparent ease, one senses energy, rigour and precision.”
Claudio Rampini — Il Portale del Violino Feature · An early portrait of the ensemble
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Archive

“One of the finest Italian quartets currently active.”
Roberto Codazzi — La Provincia, Cremona Review · Concert review
“Extremely homogeneous, each musician attentive to the others: the quartet offers its listeners a beautiful ensemble.”
Arts-chipel.fr Review · Concert review
“They are not merely playing; they are interpreting.”
La Stampa Review · Concert review

A non-exhaustive selection from the press archive. Quotations are presented in the site language; editorial translations where required.