Kryzstof Penderecki: Clarinet Quartet ; String Trio (2001)

Try this disc when you're driving in your car. You will get to work energized, perhaps even early. The Deutsches Streichtrio plays the String Trio with taut energy laced with threat and dashed with melancholy. They remind me of the way the Emerson String Quartet plays Bartok. When they tire of hurling chromatic bolts of demi-melody, they lead you through a cavern of vague unease. I listened transfixed. So this is why Penderecki dedicated this piece to them. They know its inner secrets, unlike the Tale Quartet (BIS CD-652), ... Read More

Try this disc when you're driving in your car. You will get to work energized, perhaps even early. The Deutsches Streichtrio plays the String Trio with taut energy laced with threat and dashed with melancholy. They remind me of the way the Emerson String Quartet plays Bartok. When they tire of hurling chromatic bolts of demi-melody, they lead you through a cavern of vague unease. I listened transfixed. So this is why Penderecki dedicated this piece to them. They know its inner secrets, unlike the Tale Quartet (BIS CD-652), who seem to be on less sure ground, particularly with the staccato opening chords. While the Deutsches Streichtrio speak them boldly, the Tale do so timidly, as if this music requires understatement. Similarly, clarinetist Eduard Brunner's Prelude for Clarinet solo begins less tenuously than Martin Fröst's, quickly getting to the point by stating its poetry in 2:34 rather than 3:21. Fröst's is still a compelling rendition, but Brunner plays closer to the sinews and bones. His legato... Read Less

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2001, CPO UPC: 761203973026 CD See All