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Alla Czeca
Signum Quartett
An intensely expressive account of Suk's Meditation on the Old Czech Chorale makes an ideal still point before the mellifluous outpouring of Dvorak's Quartet. The Signums capture its volatile...
Alla Czeca
Signum Quartett
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An intensely expressive account of Suk's Meditation on the Old Czech Chorale makes an ideal still point before the mellifluous outpouring of Dvorak's Quartet. The Signums capture its volatile...
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Short after the most successful album 'sound escapes' (Capriccio C5239) the young and aspiring Signum Quartet take care of the Bohemian Music Culture. Beside the famous String Quartet Op. 106 by Antonin Dvorak( 'I am very satisfied with everything I have accomplished in this quartet.') and the Meditation on the Old Czech Chorale eSt. Wenceslaus', full of impressions of the beginning of the 1st World War, by Josef Suk, are finally the 1923 composed Five Pieces for String Quartet by Erwin Schulhoff, which all experiment with dance forms, a very virtuosity challenge. 'Music is never philosophy' (Erwin Schulhoff). The succinct statement conceals what was capable of so lastingly impressing Charles Burney already in his time: direct, if possible, spontaneous expression in music.
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December 2015
An intensely expressive account of Suk's Meditation on the Old Czech Chorale makes an ideal still point before the mellifluous outpouring of Dvorak's Quartet. The Signums capture its volatile spirit, balancing line against the rapid textural figures with robust grace…the germ of Schulhoff's dances can be heard in a buoyant Scherzo, which here has just the right bitter tang.
November 2015
The Signum's strength is in the way they etch Ervin Schulhoff's entertaining - and occasionally touching - Five Pieces for string quartet of 1923. Their lilting, slightly sardonic manner with this music quite won me over
