Talich Quartet - Janáček: Quatuor n°1 «Sonate à Kreutzer», Quatuor n°2 «Lettres intimes»; Schulhoff: Quatuor n°1 (2005)
Talich Quartet - Janáček: Quatuor n°1 «Sonate à Kreutzer», Quatuor n°2 «Lettres intimes»; Schulhoff: Quatuor n°1 (2005)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 267 Mb | Total time: 57:08 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Calliope | # CAL9333 | Recorded: 2004
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 267 Mb | Total time: 57:08 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Calliope | # CAL9333 | Recorded: 2004
The Talich have set down the Quartets on three occasions: for Supraphon in 1990, and for Calliope in 1985 (with Kvapil's excellent account of Book I of On an Overgrown Path as coupling) and 2004 (with the Schulhoff). It is the latter which has been reissued here.
The recorded sound is warm, slightly resonant and provides a rich cushion for the Talich, whose playing marries appropriate tonal bloom, with incisive, icy brilliance. The playing throughout in fact is acutely perceptive as to string weight, balance and most importantly tempo and rubato. The luscious accelerandi in the second movement of the Kreutzer sonata, coupled with the tensile colours they find, shape and delineate each page of the work, and chart its narrative with requisite drive and release of tension. That's most true in the third movement, where the brittle, almost keening sonorities, individually and collectively, sculpt the trajectory with drama, and sure awareness of its crisis points. The lyric sweep of the finale receives full due here, too. In Intimate Letters, the Talich similarly locate the music's emotive heart, the longing and passion, propelled through little cells and outbursts alike. Those intense high pitched trills are the more effective for the group's control of dynamics. Their swaggering start to the finale is perfectly subverted by the music's almost immediate relapse into introversion. In terms of sonority, tempo relations, ensemble and interpretative insight, this is very much one of the best recordings of the quartets available.
Their Schulhoff Quartet, too, is highly recommendable. In terms of apt tonal sophistication I don't think it can be matched. The eponymous Schulhoff Quartet on VMS138 is more terse, but very effective, and the Brandis on Nimbus is surprisingly not as plush as I had expected, thought they tend to make a meal of the finale. The Talich take the best qualities from both these groups. There's a fine swing to the first movement and excellent folkloric-inspired fiddling in the alla Slovacca, the third movement, the finale is the work's reserved core, a sustained and concentrated span that is perfectly realised here.–Jonathan Woolf
Performer:
Talich Quartet:
Jan Talich, violin
Petr Maceček, violin
Vladimír Bukač, viola
Petr Prause, cello
Track List:
Leoš Janáček (1854-1928)
Quatuor n° 1 “Sonate à Kreutzer”
01. 1. Adagio. Con moto
02. 2. Con moto
03. 3. Con moto
04. 4. Con moto
Quatuor n° 2 “Lettres intimes”
05. 1. Andante
06. 2. Adagio
07. 3. Moderato
08. 4. Allegro
Erwin Schulhoff (1894-1942)
Quatuor à cordes n°1
09. 1. Presto con fuoco
10. 2. Allegretto con moto
11. 3. Allegro giocose alla Slovacca
12. 4. Andante molto sostenuto
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Talich Quartet - Janáček: Quatuor n°1 «Sonate à Kreutzer», Quatuor n°2 «Lettres intimes»; Schulhoff: Quatuor n°1 (2005)
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