Editorial Product Review: :This is an impressive reading of the quintet, notable for its energy and lyrical beauty, and cellist Heinrich Schiff certainly throws the considerable weight of his tone behind the fine, blended sound of the Alban Berg Quartet. The original 1982 recording was first-rate, and EMI's engineers have done a superb job of capturing its ambience and warm tone on this remastering in the Great Recordings of the Century series. The only drawback is that the players omit the exposition repeat in the quintet's first movement, depriving it of the 'heavenly length' it ...
Editorial Product Review: :This is an impressive reading of the quintet, notable for its energy and lyrical beauty, and cellist Heinrich Schiff certainly throws the considerable weight of his tone behind the fine, blended sound of the Alban Berg Quartet. The original 1982 recording was first-rate, and EMI's engineers have done a superb job of capturing its ambience and warm tone on this remastering in the Great Recordings of the Century series. The only drawback is that the players omit the exposition repeat in the quintet's first movement, depriving it of the 'heavenly length' it ...
Editorial Product Review: :This is an impressive reading of the quintet, notable for its energy and lyrical beauty, and cellist Heinrich Schiff certainly throws the considerable weight of his tone behind the fine, blended sound of the Alban Berg Quartet. The original 1982 recording was first-rate, and EMI's engineers have done a superb job of capturing its ambience and warm tone on this remastering in the Great Recordings of the Century series. The only drawback is that the players omit the exposition repeat in the quintet's first movement, depriving it of the 'heavenly length' it ...
Editorial Product Review: :This is an impressive reading of the quintet, notable for its energy and lyrical beauty, and cellist Heinrich Schiff certainly throws the considerable weight of his tone behind the fine, blended sound of the Alban Berg Quartet. The original 1982 recording was first-rate, and EMI's engineers have done a superb job of capturing its ambience and warm tone on this remastering in the Great Recordings of the Century series. The only drawback is that the players omit the exposition repeat in the quintet's first movement, depriving it of the 'heavenly length' it ...
Editorial Product Review: :This is an impressive reading of the quintet, notable for its energy and lyrical beauty, and cellist Heinrich Schiff certainly throws the considerable weight of his tone behind the fine, blended sound of the Alban Berg Quartet. The original 1982 recording was first-rate, and EMI's engineers have done a superb job of capturing its ambience and warm tone on this remastering in the Great Recordings of the Century series. The only drawback is that the players omit the exposition repeat in the quintet's first movement, depriving it of the 'heavenly length' it ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Details:Before Signing with EMI and Recording all of Mozart String Quartets at Least Once and Often Twice, the Alban Berg Quartet Recorded Nearly Half of them First for Teldec and Many Regard them Still as their Freshest and Most Vital Performances. This Four CD Budget Box is an Outstanding Bargain and all Unfamiliar with their Earlier Performances and who Simply Treasure These Quartets Are Strongly Encouraged to Give this Set a Listen.
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:On this recording of Alban Berg's Lyric Suite, Kronos reunites with Nonesuch artist Dawn Upshaw in a rare recording of the work with a vocal part in the closing movement. Six movements. Slipcase. Nonesuch. 2003. :There have been many recordings of Berg's Lyric Suite, written in memory of, or homage to, a brief, concealed love affair the composer had with a married woman. But this new Kronos Quartet single is the first to present it with the reconstruction, by composer and scholar George Perle, of the vocal part--a setting of a ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:On this recording of Alban Berg's Lyric Suite, Kronos reunites with Nonesuch artist Dawn Upshaw in a rare recording of the work with a vocal part in the closing movement. Six movements. Slipcase. Nonesuch. 2003. :There have been many recordings of Berg's Lyric Suite, written in memory of, or homage to, a brief, concealed love affair the composer had with a married woman. But this new Kronos Quartet single is the first to present it with the reconstruction, by composer and scholar George Perle, of the vocal part--a setting of a ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:On this recording of Alban Berg's Lyric Suite, Kronos reunites with Nonesuch artist Dawn Upshaw in a rare recording of the work with a vocal part in the closing movement. Six movements. Slipcase. Nonesuch. 2003. :There have been many recordings of Berg's Lyric Suite, written in memory of, or homage to, a brief, concealed love affair the composer had with a married woman. But this new Kronos Quartet single is the first to present it with the reconstruction, by composer and scholar George Perle, of the vocal part--a setting of a ...
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