'Few if any composers in Britain in 1930 were writing quartets as adventurous as this in its head-reeling flouting of tonality...'
Edward Greenwood, The Guardian, 4 February 1985

'It is hard to believe that Benjamin Britten was 16 when he wrote the Quartettino, such is the skill and intellectual command.'
Peter Stadlen, The Daily Telegraph, 25 May 1983