Long partner Decca label (including intermediate training already with Edward Dusinberre violin but I Robert Tapping the altoBartok: the string quartets 6 (The 6 String Quartets - die Streichquartette)) the Takács Quartet recorded for the label Hyperion since 2006 and it would be wrong to say that "it's really not that," because of personnel changes (a Hungarian quartet half Anglo-Saxon?) and that "small label" rhymes with production second place . Save for Hyperion is also able to benefit, when recording a quintet, as here, the reinforcement of pianist Marc-André Hamelin, who needs no introduction.
This disc recorded in May 2014 he announced a Shostakovich cycle? I do not know, but we find all the qualities of a set that got us there just a beautiful drive BrittenBritten: String Quartets No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3, and Paris, when Bartók year, a recital at the Musée d'Orsay from which emerged a second quartet Janacek at all memorable spot. Again, full and warm sound of all, the variety of the game, how to take up the cause of the partitions in interpretations that mark, conforms to remember that we had this training.
Certainly, the second quartet by Shostakovich is not the most famous of the cycle, but it is certainly a very substantial and significant score (one is haunted by the long violin recitative of the second movement, for the odyssey of changes Final). And we must never forget the time difference between the series of five symphonies and that of fifteen quartets: the second quartet (1944) is situated chronologically between Eighth Symphony (1943) and the Ninth Symphony (1945). After recently PacificaSoviet Experience 2: String Quartets, the Takacs me are just as interested: what a superb finish, with a statement of the theme on the viola (to the right of the cello) properly hugging.
Certainly also be mentioned to the quintet and Sviatoslav Richter Borodin history leave you speechless when you go to defend a new disc. For my part I must confess that the work was never much interested me. The provision of Marc-André Hamelin is worthy of the highest praise. The slow second movement Fugue in this decision clear sound that allows us to fully appreciate the superposition of voices and the growing intensity of the music and its decline is a subject of enduring fascination. Like the dreamlike lunar climate of Intermezzo, which is embodied Edward Dusinberre finesse. A very beautiful recent releases, sure.
