Korngold: String Quartets Nos. 1, 2 & 3 - Doric String Quartet (2010)
Korngold: String Quartets Nos. 1, 2 & 3 - Doric String Quartet (2010)
EAC Rip | Flac (Tracks + cue + log) | 1 CD | Full Scans | 324 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Chandos | Catalog Number: 10611
EAC Rip | Flac (Tracks + cue + log) | 1 CD | Full Scans | 324 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Chandos | Catalog Number: 10611
The Doric String Quartet is now firmly established as one of the outstanding quartets of its generation. Now in its eleventh season, it regularly performs at major festivals and venues throughout the UK as well as abroad in continental Europe and Asia. This is the Quartet’s debut CD on Chandos as exclusive artists. Most famous for his lushly romantic film scores, Erich Wolfgang Korngold wrote a quantity of music for the concert hall, the stage, as well as three highly individual string quartets between the years 1920 and 1945. Korngold was one of the great prodigies in the history of classical music, and by the time he started work on his First String Quartet (completed 1923), he had already written what many consider to be his magnum opus, the opera Die tote Stadt.
The three quartets range widely in style and are all very appealing. The First is notable for its strikingly adventurous harmony, the Second (1933) for its sheer wealth of melodic appeal, whilst the Third (1945) uses material from his film scores, and is as varied and dramatic as many of the films which he scored.
Composer: Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Orchestra/Ensemble: Doric String Quartet
Reviews: There's very little competition for this music, which is a shame because these are excellent quartets. It's really very remarkable how Korngold uses timbre to keep the busy textures clear and prevent his often chromatic harmony from turning into sludge. The main competition comes from the Flesch Quartet on ASV, so-so performances spread over two discs because they include the string Sextet as well. In general, the Doric Quartet offers livelier, more colorful, more accurate performances. To give just one example: the score of the Second quartet lists the work's duration at an optimistically fast 18 minutes. Flesch takes 25, while the Doric clocks in at an ideal 21 minutes.
These quartets are quite difficult to play, the first especially, which features frequent changes of tempo, often within a few bars. The Doric players handle all of these with astonishing ease and naturalness. There are a couple of points, as at figure 3 in the Second quartet's first movement, where the group slows down a bit in anticipation of Korngold's marking (his "Un poco più tranquillo" doesn't arrive until seven bars later), but if this is a fault, it's a vanishingly minor one.
Otherwise, you can only applaud the group's tonal richness, immaculate intonation, and a stylishness that never turns tacky (excellent application of portamento). First violinist Alex Redington deserves particular mention for handling his vibrato-less "ohne Ausdruck" moments (figure 7 in the First quartet's first movement, for example) with the right expressive point while never letting his tone turn just plain ugly ("period" performers take note). Violist Simon Tandree also features a particularly attractive timbre in his many solo licks. Korngold asks for many "special effects", including harmonics, col legno, open strings, muting, and lots of pizzicato; all of these are rendered with consistent musicality and are beautifully integrated into the ensemble texture.
Excellent sonics complement this obvious first choice for this music. If you don't know these pieces, you should. There's much more to Korngold than you might think–check out the wonderfully spiky scherzo in the Third quartet for a particularly bracing "fact check" on his theoretically unabashedly late-Romantic style. One final note for score collectors: all three works are available from Schott, the first two quartets in convenient study format, the Third only as a score and parts. An important release for chamber music devotees, and a terrific example of first-rate quartet playing.
Tracklisting:
1. Quartet for Strings no 1 in A major, Op. 16 by Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Orchestra/Ensemble: Doric String Quartet
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1923
2. Quartet for Strings no 2 in E flat major, Op. 26 by Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Orchestra/Ensemble: Doric String Quartet
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1935; USA
3. Quartet for Strings no 3 in D major, Op. 34 by Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Orchestra/Ensemble: Doric String Quartet
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1945; USA
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