Emerson String Quartet: Old World – New World
with Paul Neubauer (viola)
Emerson String Quartet
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2010, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2010, Chamber Choice
The Emersons have thought very deeply about this repertoire and their affection and profound experience of this music is evident everywhere...these are interpretations which demand to be heard...
Emerson String Quartet: Old World – New World
with Paul Neubauer (viola)
Emerson String Quartet
Purchase product
Awards:
-
Gramophone Magazine, August 2010, Editor's Choice
-
BBC Music Magazine, September 2010, Chamber Choice
The Emersons have thought very deeply about this repertoire and their affection and profound experience of this music is evident everywhere...these are interpretations which demand to be heard...
About
The Emerson String Quartet’s long cherished dream to record their favourite Dvorák string quartets is realized with their tender-hearted and infatuated readings of the Czech genius’s middle and late quartets.
A bonanza of romantic melody, not a note on this 3-CD release has ever before been recorded by the Emersons.
Dvorák’s youthful and infrequently performed song cycle on the subject of love, Cypresses, provides a compelling thematic trove for several of these enamouring quartets.
Dvorák’s quintet reveals most of all the heart of Dvorák’s musical nature, both its Bohemian roots and the bracingly fresh air of his Iowa summer experience. He later explained, “I should never have written . . . ‘just so’ if I hadn’t seen America.”
Contents and tracklist
- Emerson String Quartet (stringquartet)
- Recorded: 2008-12-19
- Recording Venue: The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City
- Emerson String Quartet (stringquartet)
- Recorded: 2009-09-17
- Recording Venue: The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City
- Emerson String Quartet (stringquartet), Paul Neubauer (viola)
- Recorded: 2009-10-09
- Recording Venue: The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City
- Emerson String Quartet (stringquartet)
- Recorded: 2009-02-13
- Recording Venue: The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City
- Emerson String Quartet (stringquartet)
- Recorded: 2009-04-29
- Recording Venue: The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City
- Emerson String Quartet (stringquartet)
- Recorded: 2008-12-19
- Recording Venue: The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City
Awards and reviews
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Gramophone MagazineAugust 2010Editor's Choice
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BBC Music MagazineSeptember 2010Chamber Choice
September 2010
The Emersons have thought very deeply about this repertoire and their affection and profound experience of this music is evident everywhere...these are interpretations which demand to be heard with their striking attention to detail.
August 2010
...this is really beautiful quartet playing, with inner parts that are both transparent and well integrated, and that gives the essential impression of four superb musicians sharing matters of vital import, albeit from the standpoint of camaraderie and understanding.
13th June 2010
[The Emersons] capture to perfection the native folksiness of the tunes Dvorak assimilated in the works written during his New York sojourn. These are technically immaculate readings by an elite quartet, equal to all the virtuoso challenges of the Brahmsian C major quartet
2nd September 2010
All the playing is full of detail...not a note out of place, and every texture perfectly balanced
2nd May 2010
...big-boned, high-gloss sound...Cypresses (B.152) has some stunning moments, though the finest readings are of the valedictory Thirteenth and Fourteenth Quartets, the last strongly Brahmsian.
5th June 2010
The American group play with a wonderfully suave style, but the gutsy spirit needed for Dvorák keeps poking through...The mellow Cypresses, a transcribed song cycle, offers a welcome change of pace in this pleasing set.
