The Eliot Quartet has already been showered with prizes, including awards at the German Music Competition, the Mozart Competition in Salzburg, and the Melbourne Competition. This new recording presents two milestones of the string quartet repertoire: Ludwig van Beethoven's "Razumovsky"-Quartet, Op. 59 No. 1, and Sergei Prokofiev's thrilling Second Quartet. Both works deal with East European folklore, and the four musicians bring out their melodic colors and rhythmic peculiarities with great accuracy and homogeneity of sound. © Genuin