Have there been enough performances of the string quartets of Haydn and Dvorák? Have there been enough performances of the songs of Gershwin and Porter? The answer, of course, is no: the works themselves are endlessly fresh and eternally appealing and any performance that expresses those essential qualities will always be welcome. In these 2004 recordings of Haydn's C major Quartet, Op. 54/2, and Dvorák's A flat major Quartet, Op. 105, Poland's Szymanowski Quartet admirably captures those qualities in performances of ...
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Have there been enough performances of the string quartets of Haydn and Dvorák? Have there been enough performances of the songs of Gershwin and Porter? The answer, of course, is no: the works themselves are endlessly fresh and eternally appealing and any performance that expresses those essential qualities will always be welcome. In these 2004 recordings of Haydn's C major Quartet, Op. 54/2, and Dvorák's A flat major Quartet, Op. 105, Poland's Szymanowski Quartet admirably captures those qualities in performances of uncanny naturalness. A highly skilled and technically adept group, the best thing about the Szymanowski's performances is its sense of improvisation: not that the group is improvising, but that the players know the works so well that they seem to be creating more than re-creating the music.Have their been enough performances of the string quartets Grazyna Bacewicz? Not bloody likely. Outside of her native Poland, there've been next to no performances and fewer recordings of any of...
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