Recordings | The Marin Quartet

Beethoven: String Quartets Op. 18 Nos. 1–3

Fenmere Records, September 2025

Elin Marsh, violin

Tomas Reinholt, violin

Nadia Ferrers, viola

Joseph Okonkwo, cello

The first volume of a three-year traversal, recorded in the church at Fenmere over four days in a cold February.

String Quartet in F, Op. 18 No. 1

I. Allegro con brio

II. Adagio affettuoso ed appassionato

III. Scherzo: Allegro molto

IV. Allegro

String Quartet in G, Op. 18 No. 2

I. Allegro

II. Adagio cantabile

III. Scherzo: Allegro

IV. Allegro molto quasi presto

String Quartet in D, Op. 18 No. 3

I. Allegro

II. Andante con moto

III. Allegro

IV. Presto

Recording of the Month — The Chamber Music Review Editor's Choice — Concertgoer

“They play Op. 18 as if the ink were still wet — quick, argumentative, entirely unbothered by two centuries of received wisdom about how early Beethoven ought to sound.” ★★★★★
The Chamber Music Review, on Beethoven: String Quartets Op. 18 Nos. 1–3

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Janáček & Tessier

Fenmere Records, April 2023

Elin Marsh, violin

Tomas Reinholt, violin

Nadia Ferrers, viola

Joseph Okonkwo, cello

Both Janáček quartets either side of Ann Tessier's Sightlines — the pairing the quartet has taken round Europe since.

Janáček — String Quartet No. 1 'Kreutzer Sonata'

I. Adagio con moto

II. Con moto

III. Con moto — Vivo — Andante

IV. Con moto — Adagio

Ann Tessier — Sightlines

Sightlines (2021)

Janáček — String Quartet No. 2 'Intimate Letters'

I. Andante

II. Adagio

III. Moderato

IV. Allegro

Shortlisted, Northern Arts Journal Recording Prize

“Tessier's Sightlines is the rare commission that sounds like it was written for these four people, because it was.” ★★★★
The Chamber Music Review, on Janáček & Tessier