Chamber, Quartets, String Quartets, Glazunov (composer)
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The Tippett Quartet brings much bright, extrovert energy to this music, but their approach occasionally works against music that already tends towards textural sameness and overworked thematic... —
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Building a Library, April 2017, Historic Choice
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Müller-Schott is sympathetic and perfectly satisfying in his own way, until you hear, say, Glazunov’s elegiac Chant du ménestrel from Rostropovich, who goes beyond Romantic plaintiveness into... —
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Fritz Kreisler: The Charming Maverick
RecommendedFritz Kreisler (violin), Thomas Petre (violins), William Primrose (viola), Laurie Kennedy (cello), with Franz Rupp (piano), with Michael Raucheisen (piano), with Arpád Sándor (piano)
Berlin State Opera Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Albert Hall Orchestra, Sir Landon Ronald,...
Listening to these recordings today you can hear his remarkable sound – characterised by an almost constant, but varied vibrato. He tended to avoid using his fourth finger in order to maintain... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 2nd January 2012
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Gramophone Awards, 2009, Finalist - Historic Reissue
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Glazunov may cut a less distinctive figure than Tchaikovsky and Borodin, but his Fourth Quartet is a substantial work juxtaposing moments of pathos and brilliance. The performance brims with... —
