Bloomington (Indiana University)

"FINE ARTS QUARTET TRANSCENDS IN PERFORMANCE (headline)...Sitting down at the typewriter to summarize the impressions left after hearing the final two concerts by the Fine Arts Quartet in its 1999 summer series, one recalls, first of all, the total: a fabric of tonal luster and richness of weave... The just-completed set of Fine Arts Quartet concerts was outstanding, as rewarding a package as the group ever left behind...Most of all, I'll remember the nobility, the spirituality, the melodic beauties of those first two movements in Schubert's C Major Quintet. The reading by the Fine Arts was profoundly moving."

(Herald-Times, Bloomington, Indiana)

Bloomington (Indiana University)

"The Fine Arts Quartet performed a spectacular program to an electrified full house...Next summer's Bloomington engagement of the Fine Arts Quartet can be anticipated as an event to be savored."

(Bloomington Herald Telephone)

Paris

"In 50 years of existence, the Fine Arts Quartet still shows their traditionally silky sonority in fine, seamless and agile readings."

(Le Monde, Paris)

Geneva

"Among today's excellent chamber music ensembles, the Fine Arts Quartet is in the first rank. The pleasure of listening is pure enchantment."

(La Suisse, Geneva)

Berlin

"A thrilling concert of chamber music was performed by the Fine Arts Quartet. The four musicians conveyed the highest level of performance and musical poetry."

(Morgenpost, Berlin)

San Francisco

"Few ensembles can reach the level of the Fine Arts Quartet for the closely matched intensity of playing, to say nothing of the lyric gleam of the tone. There was not one hint of the gangbusters aggressiveness that has become popular with some ensembles. It was just beautiful playing through and through... As for the Ravel, its destiny could have been to have been placed in the hands of the Fine Arts Quartet, who played it with the exuberance as well as the gracefulness that are inherent in this ardent work...An ensemble of lyric purity, the Fine Arts Quartet takes a back seat to none."

(San Francisco Chronicle)

Edinburgh

"The Quartet No.2 of Borodin opened with such tenderness that one wondered if one had ever really listened to this piece properly before. What has always been considered a musical lollipop became in these hands, a highly sophisticated confection."

(The Scotsman, Edinburgh)

Chicago

"Their style is elegant and polished...their intonation remarkably clean."

(Chicago Tribune)

Chicago

"My thoughts went back to the old long vanished Budapest Quartet...Here was the same richness of sound, the well-remembered warmth, the typical Central European mixture of lyricism and wit. This was an uncommonly fine example of chamber music."

(Chicago Sun-Times)

Detroit

"The Fine Arts Quartet is like the most comfortable of friends, one who allows you to kick off your shoes, let down your pretenses and wallow in the great warmth of its personality."

(Detroit Free Press)

Jerusalem

"The highest level of performance...very musical playing and a great sense of style."

(Jerusalem Post)

St. Louis

"They form an ensemble whose surface polish is as impressive as its interpretive depth, whose approach to music-making is remarkably unified, whose energy and panache seem limitless."

(St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

Geneva

"All repertoire seems to be suited to these musicians of the highest caliber, virtuosos without ostentation...The secret of the Fine Arts Quartet: it rests among the elite few able to display a spatial poetic conception."

(La Tribune de Genève)

Gien

"One can only be bewitched by their perfection...It is nearly too beautiful."

(Journal de Gien, France)

Pittsburgh

"They maintained a distinctive collective profile, and generated a vitality that brought the music to life...The players achieved a conversational quality, probing the emotional content of this compelling score in a personal, yet always collaborative way."

(Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

Grenoble

"Fine Arts Quartet at the Alps Festival: Superb!" (headline)

(Dauphine Libère, Grenoble)

Geneva

"Once more, we salute the warm and luminous qualities of the Fine Arts Quartet whose remarkably mellow and homogeneous playing succeeds in leaping over the threshold of jubilation."

(Le Courrier , Geneva)

Jerusalem

"An exciting ... program was performed with brilliance in all aspects, proving the Fine Arts Quartet to be at the top of its field. One runs out of superlatives to describe its technical flawlessness and often-breathtaking precision. There were beautiful sonorities in every mood and attention to minute detail without any loss of large lines or continuity. It was one of those rare evenings when the critic succumbs to unreserved enjoyment of the music."

(Jerusalem Post)