WEINBERG String Quartets Vol 6
Final volume in the Danel’s complete Weinberg series
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Composer or Director: Mieczyslaw Weinberg
Genre:
Chamber
Label: CPO
Magazine Review Date: AW/2012
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 74
Mastering:
Stereo
DDD
Catalogue Number: CPO777 587-2
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
String Quartet No. 2 |
Mieczyslaw Weinberg, Composer
Danel Quartet Mieczyslaw Weinberg, Composer |
String Quartet No. 12 |
Mieczyslaw Weinberg, Composer
Danel Quartet Mieczyslaw Weinberg, Composer |
String Quartet No. 17 |
Mieczyslaw Weinberg, Composer
Danel Quartet Mieczyslaw Weinberg, Composer |
Author: Caroline Gill
Rather than record each of the 17 quartets in sequence, the Danels have ordered each disc as a career-spanning spread, by which policy this volume should be particularly representative as it includes one of Weinberg’s earliest (No 2, written in 1939, although revised in 1986) alongside the last, from 1986. That Weinberg’s reluctance to display any political bias brings such an innocent optimism and purity to his work is sensitively respected by the Danels, who never open out the tone into something unnecessarily thickset. (This can be a bit at odds with the audible heavy breathing at times, which is only ever really acceptable as a backdrop to music that could be described as more lugubrious.) Instead they encourage the listener to follow the change from a certain naivety in the early examples to a more wry outlook at the end of his life. They also manage with great control the slow thematic development to which Weinberg was partial, as they do his greatly varied melody, which can range from the expansively beautiful to the reedily spooky.
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