String Quartet in E-flat Major, opus 127; String Quartet in C# minor, opus 131
Listen to these clips:
opus 127, 1st movement
opus 131, 4th movement
Brilliant, virtuosic, and still mellow, its members perfectly meshed in sound while retaining their individual personalities—the Brentano Quartet…must be one of the great musical hopes of a field overcrowded with contenders…The [players] made every utterance sing and every phrase connect within the total.”
— Los Angeles Times
String Quartet in E-flat Major, opus 127; String Quartet in C# minor, opus 131
Listen to these clips:
opus 127, 1st movement
opus 131, 4th movement