"Recording of the month: The Quatuor Ébène and viola player Antoine Tamestit start with the advatage of a more transparent recording ... This, allied to their care for balance, means that no detail of Mozart's miraculous inner part-writing escapes the ear. In sheer technical polish, too, the augmented Ébène have the edge over their rivals ... While it's always dangerous to nominate an outright 'winner' in this inexhaustible music, the Ébène are second to none in colour and vitality, and unrivalled in their lyrical tenderness. For me they become a new benchmark".