Fauré - String Quartet in E minor, Op. 121
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Chamber » Quartets » String Quartets
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Dynamic ranges are wide, with Ravel's crescendos not underplayed in any mistaken attempt at classicism, and rubatos are applied with tactful expressivity. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 5th October 2009
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Building a Library, March 2009, First Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2008, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2009, Recording of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2009, Winner - Chamber
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2009, Newcomer of the Year
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Building a Library, January 2019, Also Recommended
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Building a Library, March 2020, Recommended Recording
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A new bargain disc finds a Romanian ensemble fully at home in the string quartets of Ravel and Fauré. —
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Building a Library, November 2002, Budget Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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The Dante Quartet are superb advocates, especially in the Franck, where they are without peer among modern accounts. —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2009, Chamber Award Winner
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Gabriel Fauré: Horizons II
Simon Zaoui, Pierre Fouchenneret (violin), Raphaël Merlin, Marie Chilemme, Quatuor Strada
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Chamber Music
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The ‘floating on air’ quality that suffuses the music of Fauré’s quartet is diff icult to catch, but it’s sustained across all three movements of this constantly stimulating interpretation. —
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Fauré: Piano Trio in D Minor, Op. 120 & String Quartet in E Minor, Op. 121 - Roussel: String Quartet in D Major, Op. 45
Günter Kehr, Bernhard Braunholz, Jacqueline Eymar, Loewenguth Quartet
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Special offer. Fauré: Complete Chamber Music for Strings & Piano
Renaud Capuçon, Gautier Capuçon, Nicholas Angelich & Gérard Caussé
Quatuor Ébène
To have a five-disc set of all the pieces involving string, or strings and piano, is an utter delight...They are penetrating and utterly idiomatic, and combine to make a deeply rewarding set,... —
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The muscular Alberic Magnard and more reserved Faure both receive idiomatic and committed performances, with a magnificent range of colour, and just a few rough edges. —
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