Schnittke: Complete String Quartets
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Music CD Cover Edition: Music CD CD Release Date: 1998-05-19 Music Label: Nonesuch Soundtracks: Music CD 1
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Free Music Review: Kronos doesn't understand Schnittke!
Hit: 2 Stars
Listening to the Kronos quartet playing Schnittke's Fourth Quartet is purely an intellectual exercice. In their seriousness they don't seem to capture the emotional spirit of the late composer. Compare it to the intelligent, emotional rendition of the Fourth Quartet by the Alban Berg Quartet (dedicatee of the work) and you will measure the ocean between them... Kronos should smile for a change! On another note, the CD's booklet is interesting and fun too!
Again listen to the alternative: Alban Berg Quartet for the Fourth and Borodine for the Third and the First... The discovery is worth spending a bit more time and effort!
I recommend also the Arditti String Quartet sensitive and intelligent performance. The Schnittke second quartet is incredibly rich in colors. The pulsation is always present, the folk melodies underlying the rich texture are well defined and never forced. The fourth movement is simply out of this world.
This performance shames the fashionable, predictable, mono dimensional Kronos.