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  On 2/13/2018 at 12:26 AM, paul secor said:

Any thoughts on the Skampa Quartet recording of Janacek's Quartets?

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Belongs to a number - also  beneath Panocha Quartet and Talich Quartet - of Janacek performances with a more forward approach .... comes down at the end as a matter of taste....

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Never been able to make up my mind about Nancarrow. At its most extreme, his music dazzles, and yet....

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Haven’t checked out the Berg coupling yet. The Boulez Schoenberg “Pelleas” with the CSO is well-played (haven't compared it to the Craft on Naxos yet)  but Boulez's interpretation is (I assume quite deliberately on Boulez’s part) so full of angst and anxiety that after a while I feel exhausted and want to stop. Van Steen plays the work more calmly, and/or places a calmer emotional  floor underneath the eventual turbulence; the result is that one hears all the quite remarkable music that’s there and not just gouts of “expression.” Excellent MDG recording.

 

 

 

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