"Kodály's rich timbre...elegant playing...taught all string quartet groups a profound lesson...the ensemble is like the sound of nature and is intoxicating." Washington post
"A supremely comfortable quartet" The Strad
 
As one of the oldest and most influential string quartets in today's music scene, the Kodaly String Quartet will return to Guangzhou to bring masterpieces by Bach and Beethoven. "The Art of Fugue" is Bach's last work during his lifetime, and it is also the most mysterious and sublime unfinished masterpiece among all his creations. In this work, Bach exhausted almost all forms and styles of counterpoint art. The string quartet version of "The Art of Fugue" perfectly demonstrates the infinite possibilities of this work. "String Quartet No. 9 in C major", also known as "Eroica Quartet", is a string quartet work composed by Beethoven in his middle period. This quartet work with an obvious "heroic" color is both "cantabile" and "symphonic", demonstrating Beethoven's peak composition skills.
 
The Kodály Quartet was founded in Hungary in 1966. It was originally named the Sebastian String Quartet. The four members were top students of the Liszt Conservatoire. The orchestra won the Special Mention Award at the Geneva International String Quartet Competition on its debut. In 1972, it was approved by the Hungarian Ministry of Culture and Education to name the orchestra after the recently deceased Hungarian composer Kodaly. Having experienced personnel changes, glory and brilliance in half a century, they still adhere to the authenticity of music. They have always been the international ambassadors of Hungarian music culture and the inheritors of Hungarian music.
 
Today, they have toured almost all over Europe as well as America, Japan, China, India, Australia and New Zealand, and their performances everywhere have been a huge success. The Kodaly Quartet has achieved remarkable results since its establishment, and has so far won the "Liszt Prize" (1970), the title of "Honored Artist of the Republic of Hungary" (1990), the "Bartok Pastori Prize" (1996) and the 2022 It also won the "Kossuth" Award from the Hungarian government, which is the highest level cultural award in Hungary.
 
Over the years, the Kodály Quartet’s recordings of the complete quartets of Haydn, Beethoven and Schubert have gained recognition and appreciation from people both within and outside the industry around the world. Among them, the album of Haydn's chamber music works received three-star or above praise from the British "Penguin Record Guide", and the chamber music album "Haydn: String Quartet Op. 64" released in 1993 was rated as the best classical album by the authoritative magazine "Classical Record".