VASKS String Quartets 2 & 5
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Composer or Director: Peteris Vasks
Genre:
Chamber
Label: Wergo
Magazine Review Date: 03/2016
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 50
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: WER7329-2
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
String Quartet No 5 |
Peteris Vasks, Composer
Peteris Vasks, Composer Spīķeru String Quartet |
String Quartet No. 2, `Sommerweisen' |
Peteris Vasks, Composer
Peteris Vasks, Composer Spīķeru String Quartet |
Author: Andrew Achenbach
Though not described as such, this may well be the piece’s debut on disc, whereas No 2 has received at least four notable recordings. I much enjoyed the Navarra Quartet’s grippingly fervent traversal (Challenge Classics, 5/11) and can report straight away that these wholly dedicated newcomers also have the measure of this plangently expressive music. Perhaps it’s the Navarra who extract just a touch more colour and drama from the second movement’s ornithological cavalcade, but the Spīķeru are never less than compelling advocates, distilling a most moving spirituality and (towards the end) pantheistic wonder in the powerful concluding Elegy (where Vasks laments man’s destruction of nature). Normunds Šnē’s ingratiatingly airy sound has both presence and bloom to commend it, and this is indeed a release which deserves every success.
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