“Das Quatuor Bozzini ist ein wundervolles Ensemble für
Aussagen durch und über zeitgenössische Kompositionen… Das Quatuor setzt eine
leise, ruhig präzise, überlegte und hoch spannende Argumentation gegen eine
verlärmte Welt.”
Concert
(May 12, 2010) in Nordwest-Zeitung (Germany), May 2010
“… bewundernswert war die eiserne Disziplin mit der das Quatuor Bozzini die
scheinbar endlosen Klangflächen fest und stabil hielt…”
MaerzMusik
Festival (Mar 28, 2009) in Klassik.com (Germany), March 2009
“… davantage de satisfactions: Un concert du Quatuor
Bozzini, impliqué dans une Trance du compositeur
canadien Paul Frehner, et précis dans le 3e
quatuor de René Koering, mais qui régale surtout par la
Grande Fugue de Beethoven — une
véritable fontaine de jouvence et de modernité — et par un somptueux quatuor du
compositeur québécois Walter Boudreau…”
Les figures du
siècle (Mar 15, 2009, Mar 22, 2009) in altamusica.com (France), March 2009
“L’intégrale des Quatuors à cordes de John Cage, […] traversé avec conviction
par notre prodigieux Bozzini.”
John Cage: les
quatuors à cordes (Feb 9, 2008) in La Presse (Québec), December 2008
“One must congratulate the Quatuor Bozzini on their
total commitment to exploring the world of new music on our behalf. It may be many
years before concerts like these become less of a puzzle and more of a treat. So be
it, and more power to the Bozzini.”
Ottawa Chamber
Music Festival (Aug 5, 2008) in Showtimemagazine.ca (Canada), August 2008
“Bozzini’s all-Cage evening does its magic. McGill’s
Tanna Schulich Hall — an ideal room for this kind of concert — was near full, and
the audience was breathtakingly silent. This was Cage
lovingly played and received.”
John Cage: les
quatuors à cordes (Feb 9, 2008) in The Gazette (Québec), February 2008
“The way the world looks today, maybe it’s not so strange that artists in all
genres are responding by lifting forth the most clean sense of beauty. Evil does
not let itself be fought with something equally crooked, with power or violence,
when life itself is in danger. This is how I experience the singularly skilled and
brave Canadian Quatuor Bozzini’s choice of expression free
from all outward ornamentation to reach the musical core… The musicians made a
grand performance… The people of Boras have had the chance to hear one of the most
meaningful and finally most successful art-esthetical experiments we know of.”
Ny Musik
Borås (Oct 8, 2007), Borås
Tidning / Ny Musik Borås (Oct 10, 2007) in Boras Tidning (Sweden), November
2007
“The Quatuor Bozzini convey the authority of their
understanding of the music and their enthusiasm for it.”
Music
Toronto (Nov 1, 2007) in Showtimemagazine.ca (Canada), November 2007
“Le Bozzini a choisi ce répertoire… il le défend avec un zèle qui force
l’admiration.”
New
Simplicity (Oct 20, 2007) in La Presse (Québec), October 2007
“… Arbor Vitae is Tenney’s last
composition, commissioned by Montreal’s Quatuor Bozzini,
who played it with intense musicality and immense sensitivity…”
James Tenney
Festival (Dec 10, 2006) in Musicworks #97 (Canada), March 2007
“[in Brahms’ Quartet in B Flat Major opus 67] the quartet
succeeded remarkably well in bringing out the transparency of sound and to let the
melodic material move freely between the four voices… Warm applause will follow the
musicians on their eight concerts tour.”
Rikskonserter (Jan 29, 2007) in Uppsala
Nya Tidning (Sweden), January 2007
“There were also some overwhelming moments. One of them was the string quartet
Gradients of Detail by the Berlin-based Canadian
Chiyoko Szlavnics, performed by the outstanding
Bozzini Quartet from Quebec, who successfully realised the
rather simple glissando-processes as free flowing moments musicaux… A twenty-minute
enigma for the ears, one which never allowed our attention to slacken.”
Berliner
Festspiele: MaerzMusik (Mar 18, 2006) in Positionen #66 (Germany), May 2006
“…(les 3 œuvres) reçurent des exécutions absolument magistrales de la part du
Bozzini…”
La Quadrature
du cercle (Jan 17, 2006) in La Presse (Québec), January 2006
“Ces compositeurs ont une chance extrême de pouvoir compter sur un quatuor aussi
impliqué, sûr et imaginatif que le Quatuor Bozzini, qui évolue au top-niveau
international en la matière.”
La Quadrature
du cercle (Jan 17, 2006) in Le Devoir (Québec), January 2006
“In a carreer-spanning concert featuring the Bozzini Quartet, Tenney’s
specialists, the composer’s ideas are engagingly performed…”
James Tenney:
70 ans (Nov 11, 2004) in Los Angeles Times (USA), November 2004
“It is close to impossible to catch in words the feeling of this weekend’s four
concerts with New Music. It is necessary to start in the right place, with the
musicians. Canadian-German Bozzini Quartet is the one quartet in the whole world
that I prefer to hear… Clean colours and clean interpretations lift the qualities
in the music which are subtle, yet incredibly artistically important.”
NY Musik:
Quintets (Oct 3, 2004), NY
Musik: Christian Wolff — The Complete String Quartets (Oct 2, 2004), NY Musik: Canons and Counterpoints (Oct
1, 2004) in Boras Tidning (Sweden), November 2004
“… and the phenomenal Bozzini Quartet from Canada is leading us into the
mountains. The end of [Charles Ives] second quartet is named “Call of the
Mountains”. Here the music reaches its limits…”
Maerzmusik —
Berliner Festspiele (Mar 21, 2004) in Die Zeit (Germany), April 2004
“… souple dans son rendu de texte, le Bozzini, fait ressortir un lyrisme
personel… On va aller le revoir en concert pour partager avec lui le mûrissement
qu’il apportera à cet art.”
Concert de
saison II: Hiver (Jan 15, 2004) in Le Devoir (Québec), January 2004
“Here we have a dream quartet among the string quartets of the world, the
Canadian Bozzini Quartet from Montreal… The overtone rich sound that the four
musicians supplied in the final number, James Tenney’s Koan, became one of my most
sacred moments… The young performers Clemens Merkel and Nadia Francavilla, violin,
and Stephanie and Isabelle Bozzini, viola and cello, were like a vision… Played
with this etching clarity, brightness and yet cool restraint, (Beethoven’s late
quartets) would be an experience we can still only dream of.”
Concert
(Dec 9, 2003) in Boras Tidning (Sweden), December 2003
“… with this group performing, (Koan from James Tenney) will likely feel like
the heavens opening… What a gift we received with (Jurg Frey’s) second quartet… And
what glowing playing!”
Concert
(Dec 9, 2003) in Boras Tidning (Sweden), December 2003
“… visiting Bozzini Quartet, from Canada, took an approach to Glass’ Mishima
that unshackled the music… [from] the Bozzini’s performance of James Tenney’s Koan,
there was a lot to be learned in the journey…It was the great irony of the program
that, in a festival mounted by an ensemble exploring new media, the greatest
musical rewards came from string quartets…”
Crash
Festival (Dec 4, 2003) in The Irish Times (Ireland), December 2003
“… cette formation, tranquillement, est en train de s’imposer comme lieu ardent
de la musique vivante ici. Après la qualité de ce qu’il a présenté qui n’a d’égale
que celle dont ces instrumentistes jouent, les deux prochaines années au TLC
s’annoncent provocatrices de tournants dans le paysage musical de qui n’a froid ni
au yeux, ni aux oreilles.”
Événement
«Wandelweiser» II (Sep 12, 2003) in Le Devoir (Québec), September 2003
“Quatuor Bozzini brought the 47th annual Slee Beethoven Cycle to a graceful
close. The Bozzini is a likable group. The musicians… perform without flash or
fanfare… Francavilla was touching in the way she enunciated the beautiful, romantic
main theme, without much vibrato, with a hint of a scratch in her sound… the slow
movement (of the second “Razumovsky” Quartet) showed a taut togetherness.”
Concert
(May 30, 2003), June in Buffalo
Festival (May 31, 2003) in The Buffalo News (USA), June 2003
“The quartet sound was very beautiful and homogenous, always aiming for
transparency. Especially in the early c minor quartet op. 18 n.4 with its
tempestuous outside movements the Bozzini Quartet could joyfully romp about and
have all the youthful energy of this piece burst out… The final movement (of
Beethoven op. 59-2) became a real “bouncer”… (in Beethoven’s quartet op. 135) the
Bozzini Quartet showed capricious humour in the Scherzo and impetuous- fierce
eruptions in the finale.”
Concert
(May 10, 2003) in Rheinische Post (Germany), May 2003
“… le Bozzini a gardé toute sa transcendance pour la très difficile pièce de
Luigi Nono… La grâce y trouve peu à peu son chemin par les quatre interprètes
penchés sur leur ouvrage. À tous, bravissimi!”
Festival
Montréal/Nouvelles Musiques (Mar 11, 2003) in La Presse (Québec), March 2003
“The Bozzini Sting Quartet from Canada offered a programme which juxtaposed
Wolff’s Exercises out of Songs and Gerald Barry’s 1998. This was an inspired bit of
programming, presenting the work of composers whose refractions of their chosen
material produced some momentarily similar gestural outcomes. 1998 is possibly
Barry’s most rigorously unyelding composition.”
Contemporary
Music Festival (Nov 25, 2002) in The Irish Times (Ireland), December 2002
“With the Bozzini Quartet’s assured performance of Christian Wolff’s 1974-6
‘Exercises Out of Songs’, a patchwork quilt of rhythmic variations on folk themes
from a wide range of quasi-political sources, the Old Masters of modern music were
painting patterns of a complexity and technical mastery to put their disciples to
shame.”
Contemporary
Music Festival (Nov 25, 2002) in The Observer (UK), December 2002
“The Bozzini String Quartet is one of those groups which gets its teeth into
music. Quiet or loud, fast or slow, these Canadian musicians play with compelling
engagement.”
Mostly Modern
Series (Nov 28, 2002) in The Irish Times (Ireland), November 2002
“The players’ individual intelligences, combined with their well-honed
interactive abilities, provided a synergy that elevated each moment of the
performance to a “truest possible” experience of music.”
Concert
(May 2, 2002) in Musicworks (Canada), September 2002
“… le Bozzini apporte une jeune et stimulante fraîcheur d’accent à Beethoven, en
plus de bien suivre le texte, y compris les reprises et le retour du menuet ‘un peu
plus rapide’, tel qu’indiqué.”
Festival de
Lanaudière (Jul 1, 2002) in La Presse (Québec), July 2002
“L’exécution fut précise, le solo de Clemens Merkel convaincant… L’entrée en
matière est furieuse… Les dynamiques surprennent et, de fff à ppp, permettent aux
interprètes de briller là aussi. Le Quatuor no 3 de Wolfgang Rihm a permis aux
cordistes d’atteindre un moment de grâce.”
Concert
(Apr 14, 2002) in La Presse (Québec), April 2002
“Les chuchotements furtifs des musiciennes achèvent de construire une atmosphère
empreinte de mystère… Une soirée de haut calibre…”
Concert
(May 11, 2001) in Voir (Québec), May 2001
“The Bozzini Quartet… developed a concentrated creative energy… sound after
sound a breathing, light and mysterious world full of shining details.”
Concert
(May 4, 2001), Concert (May 6,
2001), Concert (May 6, 2001) in
Aargauer Zeitung (Switzerland), May 2001