Jerusalem Quartet

‘Miraculously honed intonation and perfect ensemble is matched throughout by an innate understanding of Haydn’s mercurial and immensely varied musical language,’ observed BBC Music Magazine of the Jerusalem Quartet’s recording of the composer’s Op. 76 No. 5. Haydn’s work, with its famed contemplative slow movement, prefaces the second of Prokofiev’s string quartets, a restless, folk-tinged composition created following Nazi Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union. The Jerusalem Quartet’s vision of Brahms’s String Quartet in C minor Op. 51 No. 1, a cornerstone of its repertoire, strikes an ideal balance between the work’s refined Classicism and its fervent expressive language.