Chausson: String Quartet Op 35 / Concert Op 21
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ERNEST CHAUSSON
Chausson: String Quartet Op 35 / Concert Op 21
Jennifer Pike (violin) Tom Poster (piano) / Doric String Quartet
[ Chandos / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 1 February 2013
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This is the sixth recording by the Doric String Quartet for Chandos Records, and the discography is going from strength to strength. The disc of Schumann's String Quartets, Op. 41 was 'Recording of the Month' simultaneously in BBC Music and Gramophone, and nominated for a Gramophone Award in the Chamber Music category in 2012.
The Quartet here turns to the French composer Ernest Chausson. The work of this composer is deeply individual, but it does reflect some technical influences of Wagner too, and of César Franck, his other musical hero. In general, Chausson's compositional style bridges the gap between the ripe romanticism of Massenet and Franck, and the more introverted impressionism of Debussy.
"Violinist Jennifer Pike, pianist Tom Poster and the Doric String Quartet have done much more than scratch the surface of this piece...it is their handling of the gradually building tension in the slow movement, from disquiet to impassioned pleading via reflection and agitation, that marks out as an especially fine performance." BBC Music Magazine, April 2013 *****
"[Pike and Poster] play superlatively - beautifully merging into the texture of the whole...The recorded sound is warm and resonant without being overwhelmingly lush...Anybody who is at all interested in late romantic chamber music should snap it up without delay." MusicWeb International, April 2013
"There are plenty of opportunities for Jennifer Pike to display her sinuous, tender tone, while Tom Poster reminds us yet again why he's so highly regarded as a chamber musician...A real front-runner for the Concert, and the most convincing of advocates for the more problematic String Quartet." Gramophone Magazine, May 2013
Tracks:
Concerto in D major for piano, violin and string quartet, Op. 21
String Quartet in C minor, Op. 35
