What they never offered, thankfully for Beethoven, was a varnished, overmanicured sound. There was always a sense of wild imagination and music-making on the run, something that even spiralled out of their encore, the scampering finale of Op 18 No 3, generally one of Beethoven’s calmer creations. Impetuosity and élan are the Kuss Quartet’s watchwords. And even crutches don’t stop them.
Geoff Brown, The Times, 05.02.2020
(Wigmore Hall)
