The Eliot Quartet offers a reminiscence of César Franck, the magician of sound, on its new GENUIN CD in co-production with SWR. To mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Belgium's greatest composer, the multinational ensemble has combined Franck's only string quartet with his celebrated piano quintet. The friendship between the quartet and pianist Dmitry Ablogin bears musical fruit on this CD, as the five musicians weave an intense web of sound between keyboard and strings in the Piano Quintet. Both works on this CD testify César Franck's mastery and ability to conjure vast sweeping lines in the most harmonically and melodically refined late Romantic garb!


The Guardian
"unflashy yet thoroughly musical pairing"
Le temps retrouvé is in the Best of 2022 list by Andrew Clements in The Guardian.

BR Klassik
"This album is a delight to listen to because the five young instrumentalists are on fire for every bar of this idiosyncratic music!"
Album of the Week, presented by Alexandra-Maria Dielitz on 23 July 2022

Musicweb International
"Recordings of the Year 2022: These are excellent performances, and to get both these works on one disc is a bonus."
Review by Stephen Barber, July 12, 2022

neue musikzeitung
"one of the most outstanding productions on the occasion of the Franck year"
Review by Michael Kube in the neue musikzeitung, November 23, 2022