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In a way, every cycle of Beethoven’s string quartets is […]
The general impression this disc makes is, well, strange. There’s no question that the Leipzig Quartet plays very well, but there’s a pervasive flaccidity in
Puccini’s early Crisantemi (1890) already hints at the dramatic style to come in the composer’s Manon Lescaut–its two principal themes resurface in the opera–but this
By its title you can tell that this is not a cohesive program but rather a collection of audience-pleasing, concert-ending pieces; but what you can’t
If you’re expecting the sardonic, jaded Kurt Weill, be forewarned that you won’t find him on this recording. These two quartets are very much early
Before I heartily endorse this impassioned and superbly played Brahms Quintet, several factors might affect your decision to buy it. One concerns MDG’s overly reverberant,
These two pieces are so tuneful and so well-crafted that it’s virtually impossible to play them badly, or even dully, and there’s certainly no risk
Ninety-one years and a turn of century later, Alban Berg’s String Quartet Op. 3 no longer shocks as it once did, but rather sounds more
The Leipzig String Quartet’s strongly classicist approach to these two Op. 18 quartets does not preclude a certain Beethovenian whimsy and daring. Indeed, the players
Elegance, warmth, and finesse–that’s what we have come to expect from the Leipzig String Quartet, and all of these qualities are in abundant supply on
