Isasi Quartet - Andrés Isasi - Complete String Quartets, Volume 1: Nos. 0 & 2 (2012)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 254 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 139 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Naxos | # 8.572463 | Time: 00:54:58
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 254 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 139 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Naxos | # 8.572463 | Time: 00:54:58
Andrés Isasi’s youthful promise can be heard in the easy romance of his Grieg and Dvořák influenced String Quartet No 0. This falls outside the numbered sequence of his quartets but retained the composer’s affection and was never withdrawn from circulation. Given its première performance by the Isasi Quartet in 2010, the substantial String Quartet No 2 is more symphonic in manner, and Isasi re-used movements in orchestral works such as the Suite No 2. This is the first of three volumes of Isasi’s complete string quartets.
Spanish Basque composer Andrés Isasi made his first appearance on Naxos nearly a decade ago, so this sequel has been a long time coming. However, two further volumes towards this complete quartets series are promised and have indeed already been recorded by the Isasi Quartet. As the accompanying notes explain, there are three more full works extant, as well as a three-movement quartet that was likely unfinished, a few fragments and two stand-alone short pieces for the medium. With luck those discs will pack them all in and be more generously furnished than this one.
Written just over a decade apart, these two quartets are fairly similar in essence, if less so in practice. Elegance, wistfulness, folk influences, memorable melodies, minor keys and a lack of pretentiousness - these are prominent features of both. As the promotional blurb says, Grieg and Dvořák are two of the more obvious references, but so is someone like Weingartner in the more Germanically oriented A minor work. There is at any rate hardly a trace of Spanish or Basque nationalism in these works - lending Naxos's 'Spanish Classics' ticket a touch of irony. Despite their name, the Isasi Quartet are a primarily German ensemble, an attribute that fits rather well with Isasi's style. This is an impressive debut for Naxos by the Quartet: sympathetic and thoughtful, technically adept and cogent.
Sound quality is pretty good, clean and spacious with just a hint of perforation at the edges. One minor complaint is that the final milliseconds of each track have had natural reverberation quickly killed by human intervention. This happens surprisingly frequently even in modern recordings where extreme shortage of space is rarely an issue; only producers will know why they do such a pointless thing, but at least in this case the effect is minuscule.
Richard Whitehouse's descriptive notes are typically informative and well written. Roll on, volume two.Review by Rob Barnett, MusicWeb-International.com
Tracklist:
String Quartet No. 0 in E minor, Op. 83 (1908)
01. I. Allegro moderato ed espressivo (08:52)
02. II. Molto lento (04:22)
03. III. Berceuse. Andante molto tranquillo (03:54)
04. IV. Final. Un poco andante - Allegro (07:17)
String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 27 (1920)
05. I. Allegro agitato (10:19)
06. II. Adagio (06:38)
07. III. Intermezzo. Allegretto giocoso - Fuga. Allegretto serioso (05:56)
08. IV. Final. Allegro - Allegro moderato (07:37)
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