“..a chamber music ensemble featuring their very special own style of music making.”

Weser Kurier, 2010

 

“The performance fascinated by its dense atmosphere, demonstrating the artists’ absolute mastery of the work’s complexities.”

Weser Kurier, 2010

 

“Sublime colours of sound layers.”

Benedikt Stegmann, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 2010

 

“The outright symphonic earnestness and the complex spectrum of melodic and polyphonous expression of Mozart as a composer of string quartets was demonstrated in this astute as well as emphatic interpretation.”

Klaus Ross, Echo, 2010

 

“With the most sensitive virtuosity and inexhaustible coloration, the Tinalley quartet promoted a masterwork of the genre.”

Klaus Ross, Echo, 2010

 

“..an unequalled evening.”

Trierischer Volksfreund, 2010

 

“The Australians left an audience that could not remain in their seats by the end of the recital and that celebrated the young musicians with several minutes of ovations.”

Trierischer Volksfreund, 2010

 

“Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy’s quartet in f minor, op. 80, sounded with vehement expressive force making tangible the composer’s mourning for his sister.”

Trierischer Volksfreund, 2010

 

“Strong expression, a pleasure to listen to.”

Waldeckische Landeszeitung, 2010

 

“Honest and unvarnished, passionate and solemn, their performance built up in the course of the evening to a listening experience that continued to have an effect and that was appreciated by the audience with strong applause.”

Waldeckische Landeszeitung, 2010

 

“Flawless intonation, casting light onto the finest musical shades.”

Waldeckische Landeszeitung, 2010

 

“..animated dialogue, common agogic breathing, a maximum of intensity and expression.”

Waldeckische Landeszeitung, 2010

 

"Die Begabung zu einer intelligenten wie emotional authentischen Interpretation erschloss bei dem an das Programmende gesetzten F-Dur Streichquartett des oft als kühl geltenden Maurice Ravel beeindruckende Perspektiven. Dank der Fähigkeit, Brechungen, Verschattungen und Schichtungen souverän zu vergegenwärtigen, gelang es den Streichern, die raffinierte Konstruktion zu einer Reise auf der Innenseite des Daseins umzuschmelzen. Das enthusiastische Publikum erklatschte sich Scherzo und Finalsatz des G-Dur-Quartetts op.18 Nr.2 Ludwig van Beethovens als Zugabe."

Benedikt Stegmann, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 2010

 

"Charakteristisch für das Tinalley String Quartet bleibt weiterhin jener ungemein plastische und eloquente Musizierstil, wie er sich schon in Mozarts einleitendem „Dissonanzenquartett“ in allen vier Sätzen mit nie nachlassender Spannung zeigte. Der geradezu sinfonische Ernst und das komplexe melodisch-polyphone Ausdrucksspektrum des Quartett-Komponisten Mozart kamen in dieser ebenso klugen wie emphatischen Interpretation eindringlicher heraus, als bei den meisten anderen jungen Ensembles der Zunft - eine reife Leistung."

Klaus Ross, Echo, 2010

 

"Melbourne’s Tinalley Quartet give a passionate and insightful account of (Mendelssohn's) early a minor Quartet, Op.13, written in the year of Beethoven’s death. The 18-year-old Mendelssohn’s gifts of lyrical and contrapuntal invention are beautifully and delicately brought to life. Anyone who thinks Mendelssohn is synonymous with stodge would do well to listen to this."

Tony Way, The Age, 2009

 

"They play with dedication in every note, in every well-crafted phrase that emerges with a judicious mix of spontaneity and maturity."

Patricia Kelly, Courier Mail Australia, 2009

 

"The (Tinalley) Quartet is now recognised around the globe for its talent. The playing here is nothing short of brilliant, displaying a depth of understanding and a brilliant relationship between the players and their deep understanding of the music."

Michael Southern, Pittwater Life Magazine, 2009

"The performance here, beautifully recorded, shows the quality of this youthful group — masterly playing and heartfelt interpretations of music titled with a deep question."

Geoff Adams, Ottago Daily Times, 2009

"Played by the Tinalley String Quartet , Mendelssohn’s opus 13 in A minor makes compelling listening. The opening adagio – allegro vivace is given a model reading in which the composer’s musical argument is expounded in sometimes achingly beautiful terms."

Neville Cohn, OzArtsReview, 2009

 

"The performance of the evening was the Tinalley Quartet's performance of an arrangement of Irkanda 4, with the composer (Peter Sculthorpe) originally put together for the Kronos Quartet.  According to Sculthorpe they gave the 'most passionate performance' of this work he has ever seen - and it was wonderful. They were balanced and sympathetic, and with their guiidance the work was extremely evocative."

Canberra Times, 2009

“... interpretive finesse ...”

Clive O'Connell, The Age, 2008


"gutsy, unified, and balanced.."

Anna McAlister, Herald Sun, 2008


“Extraordinarily superior playing in very sophisticated and deeply felt interpretations.”

Klaus Roβ, Forum Kultur Heppenheim, 2007


“Breathtaking technique and veritable perfect playing together, along with stupendous musicality, ensured that the public experienced a tense, almost palpable peace. One could simply not tear oneself away from what was happening on stage.”

Trierisch Volksfreund, 2007

“Be sure to make a note of the name of this ensemble.”

Trierisch Volksfreund, 2007


“Here the music is sensitively interpreted by unabashed artists, presenting a tone whose sound is addictive, and whose performing together is not the result of a forced accuracy … but from a natural collaboration of likeminded temperaments.”

Egon Bezold, Nürnburger Zeitung, 2007

 

“Precision, unity and a sense of maturity rarely found in such a young group of musicians.”

Hobart Mercury, 2007



“There was something wonderful for the public to “discover”: this was no well-tempered string quartet but a young and extremely sensitive ensemble demonstrating top-notch musicality, an ensemble which precisely felt and got across the drama of each composition.”

Karen Streich, Musical Discoveries, 2007



“The boundaries of the rough-edged short notes were never exceeded: one can point to the love of tone or esteem of the cultivated harmony and lyrical quality of the individual voices in the tradition of the Tokyo String Quartet.”

Anja Barckhausen, Nürnberger Nachrichten, 2007

 

"... this performance was one out of the box: each line sounding clearly through the polyphonic mesh, dynamics differentiated with unemphatic tact, consistent reliability in pitch and enunciation, an address of aristocratic finesse in main strokes and detail that argued for the score's standing as one of Mozart's finest creations."

Clive O'Connell, Ther Age, 2006

 

"Tinalley impressed with their deeply committed approach to the music they played."

The Australian, 2006

 

"... a refined elegance and perfect sense of the music's proportions."

The Australian, 2006

 

"Here you saw four musicians engaged in musical dialogue, responding to each other with a steady focus and maturity."

The Age, 2006