Bartók, Béla - String Quartet - Zehetmair Quartet
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"This recently formed but already masterly quartet is named after its first violinist, Thomas Zehetmair, a particular admirer of Hartmann. Their account of the first of his two quartets is brilliantly persuasive. A three-movement work manifestly influenced by Bartók, it repays attention. The dying falls of the slow introduction are beguiling, and the way that the fiercely argued main part of the movement keeps returning to a faintly omnious little ostinato is the sort of compelling detail through which one gets to know a new piece. Another is the distraught Bartókian cello declamation of the Con sordino central movement. Bartók's Fourth Quartet, an apt coupling, receives a performance that makes its passionate concision newly astonishing."
(The Sunday Times)
Debut recording of the astonishing quartet of whom The Times of London wrote: "What a group! On they come, devoid of frills, just the instruments, and the music in their heads and fingers. And then they start up, the sound so full-blooded, dangerous and raw. Though the velvet touch is not beyond them, they never dispense dainty milk and honey: you are forcefully aware that this is music-making bold and magical..."
Zehetmair Quartet:
Thomas Zehetmair, violin
Ulf Schneider, violin
Ruth Killius, viola
Françoise Groben, cello
Recorded November 1999