The Pavel Haas Quartet, named for a Czech Jewish composer killed during the Holocaust, has emerged as a major new chamber-music voice in the Czech Republic, recording on the old Supraphon label that has so effectively reinvented itself for capitalist times. With this release of two of Schubert's major chamber pieces, it shows why it has ascended to the top of the string quartet heap: the quartet essays daring performances that push things to the edge of both of the musicians' virtuoso abilities and their capacity for ...
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The Pavel Haas Quartet, named for a Czech Jewish composer killed during the Holocaust, has emerged as a major new chamber-music voice in the Czech Republic, recording on the old Supraphon label that has so effectively reinvented itself for capitalist times. With this release of two of Schubert's major chamber pieces, it shows why it has ascended to the top of the string quartet heap: the quartet essays daring performances that push things to the edge of both of the musicians' virtuoso abilities and their capacity for interpretive control. The buyer looking for a performance of Schubert's String Quartet No. 14 in D minor, D. 810 ("Death and the Maiden"), has many choices, but this stirring reading merits the strongest consideration. The one objection that might be raised is that it is truly extreme; it maintains an unbroken series of sharp, almost violent attacks, largely without vibrato, throughout the first movements, giving the music real hair-trigger tension. It is almost too much, but not quite;...
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