The Wihan Quartet

The Wihan Quartet has established a reputation and achieved broad international acclaim for performances of the quartets of Dvořák, Smetana, and Janáček, as well as those of contemporary Czech composers like Lubos Krticka and Jiří Pauer. However, no single composer has so strongly captured its devotion as Beethoven; the Wihan players have performed the entire cycle of his quartets in concert several times and recorded all 16 for the Nimbus label. The group's repertory is hardly limited to Beethoven and the Czechs, though, and it regularly plays works by Mozart, Schubert, and S...