Schoenberg: String Quartets Nos. 3 & 4: Recordings supervised by Robert Craft

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the energy and eloquence of Fred Sherry and his colleagues ensure that the effect is never merely strenuous, never turgid. Though often aggressive, the music dances and sings...Thorough but life-affirming,... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2010 More…

Release Date: 31st Aug 2010
Catalogue No: 8557533
Label: Naxos
Length: 74 minutes

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December 2010

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Schoenberg: String Quartet No. 3, Op. 30

Work length30:38

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Fred Sherry String Quartet

I. Moderato

Track length8:30

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II. Adagio

Track length8:46

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III. Intermezzo. Allegro moderato

Track length7:07

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IV. Rondo. Molto moderato

Track length6:15

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Schoenberg: String Quartet No. 4, Op. 37

Work length33:33

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Fred Sherry String Quartet

I. Allegro molto; energico

Track length8:51

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II. Comodo

Track length7:17

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III. Largo

Track length8:52

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IV. Allegro

Track length8:33

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Schoenberg: Phantasy for Violin with Piano Accompaniment, Op. 47

Work length10:02

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Rolf Schulte, Christopher Oldfather

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While Schoenberg’s final two string quartets inhabit atonal sound worlds, the Third draws on Classical forms such as theme-and-variations, minuet and sonata-rondo, its unsettling opening movement recalling a fairytale picture, ‘The Ghostship’, its Adagio a movement of spiritual depth and beauty.

Schoenberg was particularly pleased with his Fourth String Quartet, which follows a creative logic of continual development and variation derived from the music of Bach and Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and Wagner.

The Phantasy is a virtuosic peroration for violin with commentary from the piano, a prime example of Schoenberg’s avowed aim to write ‘really new music which, as it rests on tradition, is destined to become a tradition’.

“Robert Craft was put on this earth to produce clear blueprints of Schoenberg and Stravinsky scores.” Gramophone

Reviews

December 2010

the energy and eloquence of Fred Sherry and his colleagues ensure that the effect is never merely strenuous, never turgid. Though often aggressive, the music dances and sings...Thorough but life-affirming, this performance sums up the spirit of the whole disc in admirably uncompromising fashion.

12th September 2010

...the fusion of the familiar and the untrodden remains explosive and exhilarating, certainly as expounded by these players, who vary between the works. In common is the cellist Fred Sherry, veteran of the American modern music scene. The fourth quartet is led by the outstanding Leila Josefowicz.

16th September 2010

...the two works sound fresh and vital, neither four-square in their phrasing nor rhythmically stolid. The Sherry Quartet presents both with total naturalness, giving the music all the space it needs to breathe and express itself.

Schoenberg: String Quartets Nos. 3 & 4

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