"...The thrumming heartbeat of the dying Christ is omnipresent through these meditative intervals in the Passion reading, and the great strength of the Guarneri's performance lies in their instinctive understanding of its function... Their introduction is much slower, more deeply etched than that of Kremer and his band on Philips: there is a true sense of moment here, with a real Largo for the 'Pater, dimitte illis' which, in turn, breathes more naturally with the implicit underlay of the movement's silent words. Having taken the pulse, they then maintain it exactly for the following movement, under the sweet cantabile of the violin... The Guarneri's is, not surprisingly perhaps, an altogether warmer, more homogenous and less febrile reading... This, then, is a deeply thoughtful, powerfully paced reading..." -- Hilary Finch, Gramophone [4/1988]