Our debut album is out now!
We’re thrilled to announce that our debut album is now available on all digital streaming platforms!
This release represents a major milestone in our artistic journey, and we’d like to express our heartfelt gratitude to Filippo Bentivoglio — our sound engineer, an exceptional professional, a generous person, and a true friend.
The album also inaugurates his new publishing label, Filodinote, a visionary initiative that bridges the worlds of business and classical music to inspire younger generations.
Our passion for the string quartet repertoire was born with two masterpieces: Mozart’s String Quartet in D minor, KV 421, and Ravel’s String Quartet in F major. This CD is recorded last summer, we hope it shares the same love and enthusiasm that first drew us to them.
“With their debut album Mozart/Ravel String Quartets, the Goldberg Quartet — one of the most compelling Italian ensembles on today’s chamber music scene, performers of rigor and intelligence capable of making classical repertoire sound alive, thoughtful, and vibrant — delivers a recording debut of remarkable interpretative maturity.”
Alessandro Cammarano – Le Salon Musical, 2025
“The program brings together the dramatic and densely expressive Mozart of the String Quartet in D minor, K.421, and Ravel’s String Quartet in F major, a work of finely chiseled precision clothed in airy lightness. Two distant musical worlds, demanding very different approaches in sound, technique, and interpretation, which the four musicians master with a maturity surprising for their age and with an impetuous energy entirely fitting for it.”
Nicoletta Sguben – Musicpaper, 2025
“In Mozart, the Goldberg Quartet chooses a clear, controlled sound of great timbral purity. The balance between the parts, always supported by meticulously shaped phrasing, reveals the work’s inner dramatic tension without any indulgence in rhetoric. The tone is lean yet never dry, with an almost chamber-like attention to the breath of silence and to the architectural shaping of dynamics. It is a Mozart of thoughtful elegance, favoring clarity over sentimentality.”
Alessandro Cammarano – Le Salon Musical, 2025
“In the Ravel, by contrast, the quartet opens the sound, allowing the full richness of color and the sensuality of the harmonies to emerge. Particularly striking is the precision with which the Goldberg Quartet controls the density of timbre, avoiding any opacity: the transparency of the texture remains constant even in the most complex passages, where the melodic line blends with the rhythmic and timbral fabric in an interplay of extraordinary coherence. The suspended atmosphere of the Très lent and the brilliant energy of the finale reveal meticulous attention to detail and a stylistic awareness rare for such a young ensemble.”
Alessandro Cammarano – Le Salon Musical, 2025
“The final movement, Vif et agité, unfolds as a feverish motion in an asymmetrical five-beat rhythm that the four performers “ride” with applause-worthy virtuosity. Listening to its momentum, and remembering that Ravel was only twenty-eight when he wrote the only string quartet of his life, one might say that perhaps it takes exactly that age to perform it well.”
Nicoletta Sguben – Musicpaper, 2025