
The primary reason to care about this recording is the presence of two Erwin Schulhoff works: the tempest in a teapot Quartet No. 1 and
The Horowitz here is Joseph, the critic and music historian, not Vladimir, aided and abetted by noted Dvorák scholar Michael Beckerman of NYU, whose work
George Enescu graduated from the Vienna Conservatory at age 11, and in some respects his music fulfills our expectations of a child prodigy for whom
Violin virtuoso Kristin Lee serves up a delightful and stylistically wide-ranging cornucopia of American music, performed with unalloyed joy, style and effortless technique, abetted by
These are amazing performances. First, the coupling: so smart and
Just why Vagn Holmboe’s 20 numbered string quartets remain closer to the repertoire’s fringes rather than towards the center core is a mystery, for they
Unlike DG’s recent incomplete Complete Works box, this one, all
In mathematics it is possible to accept the notion that
Some releases make a critic’s job very easy, and this
The neglect of these pieces is simply unaccountable. Along with