Thème Russe
Kuss Quartet
The Kuss's relatively low-key approach works well in the Schnittke but makes the Concertino seem discursive and dull...The Kuss seem more at home in Dubinsky's arrangements of Tchaikovsky...In...
Thème Russe
Kuss Quartet
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The Kuss's relatively low-key approach works well in the Schnittke but makes the Concertino seem discursive and dull...The Kuss seem more at home in Dubinsky's arrangements of Tchaikovsky...In...
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An enchanting programme of Russian music for string quartet from the acclaimed Kuss Quartet. The multiple-composer 'Variations on a Russian folk song' has composers such as Scriabin, Rimsky-Korsakov, Glazunov and Lyadov rub shoulders with lesser-known names such as Vitols, Blumenfeld, Ewald, Winkler, Sokolov and Artsybuschev – each composer contributing a variation.
Selections from Tchaikovsky’s 'Album for the Young' frame two 20th-century works: Stravinsky’s effervescent 'Concertino', and Schnittke’s spare and sombre 'Canon in memoriam Igor Stravinsky'. • Tchaikovsky’s ever-popular First String Quartet concludes an ingeniously constructed programme.
Contents and tracklist
Rimsky Korsakov:
Variations on a Russian Folk Song - for String Quartet: Theme. Adagio:
Work length0:56
- Kuss Quartet
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai Artsybuschev:
Variations on a Russian Folk Song - for String Quartet: Variation 1. Allegretto: Artsbyuschev
Work length0:40
- Kuss Quartet
- Kuss Quartet, Alexander Scriabin, Alexander Glazunov
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Anatoly Lyadov:
Variations on a Russian Folk Song - for String Quartet: Variation 5. Canon. Adagio:Lyadov
Work length1:18
- Kuss Quartet
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Jazeps Vitols:
Variations on a Russian Folk Song - for String Quartet: Variation 6. Allegretto: Vitols
Work length1:00
- Kuss Quartet
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Felix Blumenfeld:
Variations on a Russian Folk Song - for String Quartet: Variation 7. Allegro: Blumenfeld
Work length0:58
- Kuss Quartet
Rimsky Korsakov:
Variations on a Russian Folk Song - for String Quartet: Variation 8. Andante cantible
Work length2:02
- Kuss Quartet, Victor Ewald
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Alexander Scriabin:
Variations on a Russian Folk Song - for String Quartet
Work length2:04
- Kuss Quartet
- Kuss Quartet
- Kuss Quartet
Schnittke:
Canon in memoriam Igor Stravinsky: Canon in memoriam Igor Stravinsky: Schnittke
Work length6:36
- Kuss Quartet
- Kuss Quartet
Work length29:10
This work is only available as an album download.
- Kuss Quartet
I. Moderato e semplice: Tchaikovsky
Track length11:32
This track is only available as an album download.
Awards and reviews
December 2012
The Kuss's relatively low-key approach works well in the Schnittke but makes the Concertino seem discursive and dull...The Kuss seem more at home in Dubinsky's arrangements of Tchaikovsky...In Tchaikovsky's Quartet, the players bring an understated tenderness to the well-loved slow movement
July 2012
The Kuss Quartet's new record, 'Theme russe', consists mostly of a number of appetising morsels, not so much a meal as hors d'oeuvres...Tchaikovsky provides the only substantial work, his First Quartet, played with a lively dance lilt in the Scherzo and a gentle eloquence with the arrangement of a genuine Ukrainian folksong
Classical Music 21st April 2012
An intelligent, rewarding and well-recorded programme from this superb German-based quartet. The main work, Tchaikovsky's first quartet, comes at the end and is one of the finest recent performances on disc.
