Dvorák String Quartets
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Composer or Director: Antonín Dvořák
Label: Chandos
Magazine Review Date: 11/1990
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 63
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: CHAN8837

Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
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String Quartet No. 10 |
Antonín Dvořák, Composer
Antonín Dvořák, Composer Chilingirian Qt |
String Quartet No. 11 |
Antonín Dvořák, Composer
Antonín Dvořák, Composer Chilingirian Qt |
Composer or Director: Antonín Dvořák
Label: Chandos
Magazine Review Date: 11/1990
Media Format: Cassette
Media Runtime: 0
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: ABTD1458

Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
String Quartet No. 10 |
Antonín Dvořák, Composer
Antonín Dvořák, Composer Chilingirian Qt |
String Quartet No. 11 |
Antonín Dvořák, Composer
Antonín Dvořák, Composer Chilingirian Qt |
Author: John Warrack
Similarly, other quartets have played the finale of this work and of the C major Quartet with a more natural sense of high spirits. The Talich (Calliope/Harmonia Mundi), for instance, are lighter and fresher in the final Vivace of the C major; if their articulation is not quite as clear as the Chilingirian's, which is beautifully lucid, this is in part the responsibility of the recording. In general, the Talich have a quicker sense of the Czech elements in the music, as is only to be expected, but also some original points of phrasing and of tempo change which are very convincing. Their coupling is a marvellous performance of the American Quartet.
Admirers of Dvorak's music most likely already possess a well-loved recording of that work, perhaps even the Talich version. Those who do not possess it, or who do not mind duplication of the C major Quartet, will find very agreeable, well-judged performances on this new disc.'
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