How are the Ying Quartet's recordings of Tchaikovsky's three string quartets and his string sextet Souvenir de Florence? Good? No. Very good? No. Very, very good? Yes, very, very much yes.As siblings, the Ying Quartet has just about everything going for it -- a unified sound, a cogent ensemble, and an effortless unanimity -- and as Tchaikovsky players, they likewise have just about everything going for them -- a voluptuous tone, a vivacious sense of rhythm, and an acute sense of drama. In the well-known Andante cantabile ...
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How are the Ying Quartet's recordings of Tchaikovsky's three string quartets and his string sextet Souvenir de Florence? Good? No. Very good? No. Very, very good? Yes, very, very much yes.As siblings, the Ying Quartet has just about everything going for it -- a unified sound, a cogent ensemble, and an effortless unanimity -- and as Tchaikovsky players, they likewise have just about everything going for them -- a voluptuous tone, a vivacious sense of rhythm, and an acute sense of drama. In the well-known Andante cantabile from the first quartet, they express the music's warm intimacy with an ideal balance between heart and soul, and in the less-well-known but perhaps even more affecting Andante funebre e doloroso from the third quartet, they articulate the music's deep sorrow with an ideal balance between heart and spirit.What is it that stops the Ying's recordings from being definitive, then? That's hard to say; one can only point to the earlier Borodin Quartet's recordings by way of comparison. Where...
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Add this copy of Souvenir De Florence / Quartet Nos 1-3 to cart. $8.20, good condition, Sold by Zoom Books Company rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Lynden, WA, UNITED STATES, published 2007 by Telarc Distribution.
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