Winterreise
Franz Schubert
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Reviews (5)
MusicWeb international
2022 June
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Dave Billinge
2022 June
"Recommended: With this second disc there is a chance to listen at length to that old Schoenberg. The First Quartet is the longest instrumental piece he ever wrote, and it is all as passionate and dramatic as his early masterpiece for string sextet Verklärte Nacht ... The third quartet from 1927 is a more angular piece and sounds closer to the neoclassical style ... Here the technical virtuosity of the Gringolts pays huge dividends for they are able to play it so accurately and with such apparent ease ... Very highly recommended".
BBC music magazine
2022 July
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Misha Donat
2022 July
"Chamber choice: The Gringolts Quartet play both works with absolute mastery, and it would be difficult to imagine more convincing performances. Lingering particularly in the memory is the middle section of the quasi-slow movement in the Quartet No. 1, with its radiant viola melody beautifully played by Silvia Simionescu. This is a really important release".
Fono Forum
2022 Juli
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Giselher Schubert
2022 Juli
"In den beiden hier eingespielten Werken sind es ganz besonders die Verfahren thematisch-motivischer Arbeit, die er mit allen möglichen variativen Möglichkeiten erschöpfend ins Werk setzt. Auf dieser schier überbordende thematische Arbeit konzentriert das Gringolts Quartet seine Interpretation. Kaum einmal wurde sie derart plastisch nach aussen gekehrt ... Beeindruckend, mit welcher nicht nachlassenden Konzentration der komplexe, klanglich schroffe thematische Diskurs nachvollzogen wird".
The gramophone
2022 June
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Peter Quantrill
2022 June
"Volume I of this series was welcomed in these pages for values of achitectural clarity and expressive restraint which hold good for the sequel ... In that regard these are exemplary modern readings ... Among contemporary cycles as a whole, the Gringolts stand out both for their technical refinement and for the projection of a kind of melancholy Jewish wit that reveals itself more readily in Schoenberg's correspondence than in his music".
Diapason
2022 juin
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Patrick Szersnovicz
2022 juin
