THIS fascinating new disc from the revered Fitzwilliam String Quartet with guest violist James Boyd almost reconciles the strands of what I call “the Bruckner problem”. The Austrian is a “love him or ...
Technical infallibility is now a non-negotiable when it comes to Bartók's six fiendishly difficult string quartets. Still, there's much more to these pieces than simply hitting the right notes and ...
In a long and useful booklet-note, Alan George, the quartet’s founding viola player, lays out their performing principles, which (guess what?) in practice come back round to share the pitch and ...
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String Quartet No. 2 Zehetmair Quartet Karl Amadeus Hartmann, Composer String Quartet No 2 Zehetmair Quartet Heinz Holliger, Composer The rubato that is distracting in the Beethoven is in fact helpful ...
As members of one of the world’s leading Bruckner orchestras, violinist Yuan-Qing Yu and cellist Ken Olsen know the 19th century Austrian symphonist better than most. But when the board chair of their ...
Bad timing in the mails alone kept Tenebrae's new recording Brahms and Bruckner Motets (Signum Classics) off my year's best list, so I'm happy now to call it the most beautiful recording of 2015. It's ...
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