Brahms: String Sextets
Barry Shiffman (viola) & Zuill Bailey (cello)
Cypress String Quartet
The players have the balance well worked out – even with the extra weight in the lower sonorities, the music sounds clear and rarely bottom-heavy, which is some achievement. The first movement...
Brahms: String Sextets
Barry Shiffman (viola) & Zuill Bailey (cello)
Cypress String Quartet
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The players have the balance well worked out – even with the extra weight in the lower sonorities, the music sounds clear and rarely bottom-heavy, which is some achievement. The first movement...
About
The Cypress String Quartet seals its 20-year legacy with its last recording, the two String Sextets by Brahms, joined by long-time collaborators violist Barry Shiffman and cellist Zuill Bailey.
The legacy of the Cypress String Quartet, which celebrated its 20th anniversary and valedictory season in 2016, is sealed by the ensemble’s final recording - the two String Sextets by Johannes Brahms in which they are joined by long-time collaborators, violist Barry Shiffman and cellist Zuill Bailey. True to form, the Cypress String Quartet applied innovation to its last recording: live in front of a studio audience at Skywalker Sound Studio and recorded in both high-resolution and analogue formats.
Contents and tracklist
- Barry Shiffman, Zuill Bailey
- Cypress String Quartet
- Barry Shiffman, Zuill Bailey
- Cypress String Quartet
Awards and reviews
March 2017
The players have the balance well worked out – even with the extra weight in the lower sonorities, the music sounds clear and rarely bottom-heavy, which is some achievement. The first movement of the B flat major Sextet, Op. 18, has a nice sense of sweep, and the extreme glassiness of the music-box variation in the slow movement comes as a pleasing surprise
19th February 2017
they bring to these performances of Brahms’s lushly textured sextets all the fruits of their experience, investing in these spacious but intelligently navigated architectures a super-rich sound and an impressively unanimous ensemble.
