Berg, Schubert
Young-Uk Kim, Jaeyoung Kim, Seungwon Lee
Novus Quartet
This young Korean ensemble turn Schubert to face us head-on, stern and unyielding of visage, mortality snapping at his heels. Pure tone lends an unearthly pallor to the slow movement, and subsequent...
Berg, Schubert
Young-Uk Kim, Jaeyoung Kim, Seungwon Lee
Novus Quartet
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This young Korean ensemble turn Schubert to face us head-on, stern and unyielding of visage, mortality snapping at his heels. Pure tone lends an unearthly pallor to the slow movement, and subsequent...
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Inspired by the black aura of Romanticism, Novus Quartet’s new disc brings together two major works from the Romantic repertoire.
The finest Korean musicians put their virtuosity in the service of Schubert’s moving Death and the Maiden and Berg’s Lyrical Suite.
In their own way, these works proceed to the encryption of the feeling of love. It is not a question of hiding it but of expressing it more powerfully than with words. And the intermingling of reminiscences weaves an irresistible poetic discourse - Schubert quoting one of his Lieder and Berg as homage to Zemlinsky’s Symphonie Lyrique.
A release that once again allows this captivating quartet to hear the full extent of his talents in romantic music, from the dawn of the period until his last fires.
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April 2019
This young Korean ensemble turn Schubert to face us head-on, stern and unyielding of visage, mortality snapping at his heels. Pure tone lends an unearthly pallor to the slow movement, and subsequent couches of vibrato serve not to impart any rosy glow but rather to deepen the established pathos.
10th February 2019
The impressive Novus players, Korean protégés of the Belcea, give beautifully shaped readings, investing each piece with the right balance of drama and warmth.
