The Strad | June 2003

London: Wigmore Hall

Formed ten years ago, the Oslo Quartet is best known for championing contemporary repertoire from its own homeland. This impressive Wigmore coffee concert featured a rather less contemporary Norwegian piece (Grieg´s G minor op 27) alongside Mozart´s experimental E flat major K428. More

Västerbottens-Kuriren | June 2003

Umeå: Chamber Music Festival

... One seldom hears Beethoven’s music played this vibrantly and coherently. Even such a relatively naïve movement can be imbued with substance and resonance. The dazzling, almost ticklingly happy final movement, which replaced the Great Fugue, is given an almost weightless expression in an interpretation that completes the lunch concert given by the talented musicians of the Oslo String Quartet. More

The Irish Times | March 2003

Dublin: St Stephen's Church

... And the playing of the Oslo Quartet also seems effortless; the music is never forced but flows in its appointed course with every appearance of freedom. The quality of the music was matched by the quality of the performance, every mood, whether cheerful or yearning or solemn, finding its just expression. More

The Irish Times | November 2001

Dublin: St Stephen's Church
Oslo String Quartet/
Michael Collins (clarinet)

The playing of Beethoven’s Op. 127 was notable for the way in which all the instruments blended, so that the four voices became one capable, as it were, of dividing itself into many. This unanimity, coupled with the Oslo’s rhythmic alertness, helped the music to attain that level of transcendence that Beethoven seemed to be aiming at, without losing touch with earth. More

CD Reviews on the net:

Carl Nielsen String Quartets Vol I

Carl Nielsen String Quartets Vol II

"Norwegian 22th century quartets"

John Hayward-Warburton (Music and Vision)

More CD Reviews at the discography-page.