Description
Title: Brahms: STR QRT Nos 1 & 3
Artist: Borodin Quartet
Label: WEA Apex Classics
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 809274998521
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2003-04-28
Number of Discs: 1
Brahms: String Quartets No 1 & 3 / Borodin Quartet Composer: Johannes Brahms Orchestra/Ensemble: Borodin String Quartet Quartet for Strings no 1 in C minor, Op. 51 no 1 Written: 1865-1873; Austria Quartet for Strings no 3 in B flat major, Op. 67 Written: 1875; Austria The distinctive perspective and insight of Russian musicians furnishes an interesting and valid perception of Western European art-music. This recording was made in Berlin, 1993. With the String Quartet in c-minor, Op. 51, No. 1, the Borodin”s take a sensible time scale in the Allegro introduction wherein they accentuate the lyrical while de-emphasizing the dramatic, thusly realizing a very apprehensible presentation. The Russians achieve an especially ethereal ambience in the rare Romance. There is a joyous buoyancy with piquant pizzicati in the trio of the Allegretto, and a vivid intensity in the Finale where the lucidity of timing and phrasing aid in aesthetic perception.
Tracks:
1.1 String Quartet No.1 in C minor, Op.51/1
1.2 String Quartet No.3 in B Flat Major, Op.67
