The Mathilde Album - Webern, Schoenberg & Zemlinsky
Elsa Dreisig (soprano)
Quatuor Arod
Awards:
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2019
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2019, Editor's Choice
On this occasion the limelight is stolen from Schoenberg by Zemlinsky...This music requires little excuse to become overheated, and it is much to the Arod’s credit that they resist the temptation...
The Mathilde Album - Webern, Schoenberg & Zemlinsky
Elsa Dreisig (soprano)
Quatuor Arod
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Awards:
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2019
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2019, Editor's Choice
On this occasion the limelight is stolen from Schoenberg by Zemlinsky...This music requires little excuse to become overheated, and it is much to the Arod’s credit that they resist the temptation...
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With this album of works by Schoenberg, Zemlinsky and Webern – key figures in Vienna’s musical life in the early 20th century – the Quatuor Arod honours the woman who became Arnold Schoenberg’s wife in 1901. Mathilde was Zemlinsky’s sister and the dedicatee of her husband’s String Quartet No 2, an innovative work in both its tonal language and its integration of a soprano – here Elsa Dreisig. It was completed in the summer of 1908, a tumultuous period in the Schoenbergs’ marriage
Contents and tracklist
- Quatuor Arod (string quartet)
- Quatuor Arod (string quartet), Elsa Dreisig (soprano)
- Quatuor Arod (string quartet)
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Awards and reviews
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Presto Editor's ChoiceOctober 2019
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Gramophone MagazineNovember 2019Editor's Choice
November 2019
On this occasion the limelight is stolen from Schoenberg by Zemlinsky...This music requires little excuse to become overheated, and it is much to the Arod’s credit that they resist the temptation to press the bow into the string until really decisive moments...The coupling is as unique as it is insightful, and comparisons would seem beside the point: it’s an outstanding album.
October 2019
Imaginatively programmed and superbly performed, this second album from the Paris-based string quartet is named for Mathilde Schoenberg (née Zemlinsky) and features works by her husband and brother, prefaced with a surprisingly voluptuous account of Webern’s Langsamer Satz. Soprano Elsa Dreisig is ideal ‘casting’ for Schoenberg’s Second String Quartet, integrating seamlessly into the texture and delivering Stefan George’s texts with exemplary diction.
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