The Ying Quartet, a U.S. group in residence at the Eastman School of Music in New York state, has a reputation for fresh programming in the often moribund string quartet field, and this release is no exception. It contains possibly the most familiar of all American quartets, albeit one usually played by an orchestra and shorn of its surrounding movements: the Molto adagio movement of the String Quartet, Op. 11, of Samuel Barber, better known as the Adagio for strings. The Ying Quartet is not the only group to play the ...
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The Ying Quartet, a U.S. group in residence at the Eastman School of Music in New York state, has a reputation for fresh programming in the often moribund string quartet field, and this release is no exception. It contains possibly the most familiar of all American quartets, albeit one usually played by an orchestra and shorn of its surrounding movements: the Molto adagio movement of the String Quartet, Op. 11, of Samuel Barber, better known as the Adagio for strings. The Ying Quartet is not the only group to play the original version, but it is the only one to also include Barber's original finale to the piece, which he later rejected and replaced with the current finale, a small bit of music closely related to the opening movement. The effect of that is to elevate the Adagio to full prominence, but quite a few quartets in the work's early years played the first version, and it's an exuberant finish that casts a new hue onto the Adagio. Both versions are included here, so anyone with programming...
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