American Originals - Ives & Barber: String Quartets
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Edition: Music CDCD Release Date: 1993-01-19
Music Label: Deutsche Grammophon
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- String Quartet No.1 'From The Salvation Army': I. Andante con moto
- String Quartet No.1 'From The Salvation Army': II. Allegro - Allegro con spirito - Quasi andante
- String Quartet No.1 'From The Salvation Army': III. Adagio cantabile - Allegretto- Andante con moto - Adagio cantabile
- String Quartet No.1 'From The Salvation Army': IV. Allegro marziale - Poco andante con moto - Allegro marziale
- Scherzo - 'Holding Your Own': Fast - Slow - Allegro
- String Quartet Op.11: I. Molto allegro e appassionato
- String Quartet Op.11: II. Molto adagio - attacca
- String Quartet Op.11: Molto allegro (come prima) - Presto
- String Quartet No.2: I. Discussions: Andantd moderato - Andante con spirito - Adagio molto
- String Quartet No.2: II. ArgumentsL Allegro con spirito - Andante emasculata 0 Allegro con fisto 0 Presto - largo sweetota - Allegro con fisto - Largo - Allegro con fuoco - Andante con scratchy - Allegro con fistiswatto
- String Quartet No.2: III. 'The Call Of The Mountains': Adagio Andante - Andante con spirito - Adagio primo - Adagio meatoso
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Free Music Review: Great Barber
Hit: 3 Stars
I really liked the performance of the Samuel Barber string quartet. If played well, this, and other of Barber's pieces assume their true position of great, great importance within the American and, most especially, Euro-American composers repertoires.
He is one of the most important composers.
We can hear this here though one could also leave this recording aside after listening to it not knowing the work's great importance as, greater than the identification of the work as such, there is a lovely and incredible personalness from the players in the identifying with this work which they realise is very great (and so do we). Then also what they do is they demonstrate or exhibit a very, very special uniqueness of this piece itself for which I would give the recording 98 or 99 out of 100. It doesn't claim to be definitive at all, the very opposite, and is joyous to listen to and much more. Indeed we seem to visit a vast and seemingly endless world of this.
Much of Charles Ives's music which I know, though I don't know much, I rate in a similar though more personal way though the music is more untouchable and remote to me and in terms of greatness and also, kind of importance, though sometimes I would state great importance.
I have to say that I don't find these performances very convincing or enlightening. I have tried for years to listen to these quartets by the Emmersons but have failed. I haven't heard any other recording of the quartets, which is my own fault. The first of the two pieces for four string instruments starts very well and is inducing and one assumes that the Emmersons are able in this territory, but I think they lose the piece entirely, without doubt, though at various points they convey fluency though this is even more irritating as one can't detatch oneself from the music then.
I have no idea what to make of the second quartet. After imagining, truly and not non-deeply that I was quite familiar and totally confluent with this piece, as it is challenging, for some time, over a year maybe, I realised after this that this was the very most disturbingly avante-garde piece that I had ever come across. And I can only describe it as such, it remains this, and without any extra favourable comments at all in support of the piece, after maybe eleven years.
I have to blame the Emmersons for this, and utterly so. It is the strangest occurrence in my complete familiarity with music.
Perhaps, though, the Barber performance is on a similar level of awe in the domain of a great "telling" for me in my experience, sometimes much more so and I think eternal wisdom is being expressed, and surely and with mature, great, masterly ease is in the expression.
I must get a new recording of the Ives quartets.
American Originals - Ives & Barber: String Quartets Poster
Barber's string quartet is the source of that famous Adagio for strings, popularized by the movie Platoon in its later arrangement for full string orchestra. It makes an even stronger impression in its original context, sandwiched between two thematically related quicker movements. Ives's two quartets represent the two opposing poles of his character: the early First Quartet is a lyrical work based on hymn tunes, while in the Second all hell breaks loose as the four players literally fling themselves at the music (and each other), until they finally decide--in the words of the composer--to shut up, go out, and view the firmament. The end is suitably cosmic, as are these stunning performances. --David HurwitzClassical Music CDs
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