....From the Listening thread... (which moves on fast so sometimes you can miss things)....this marvellous recording deserves its own...
Enescu Octet Op.7.
Gringolts Quartet & Meta4. BIS 24/96 New release via Qobuz-S.
Utterly stunning account of this uniquely remarkable masterpiece (completed in 1900 when Enescu was.....19 years old...! "For me, music is not a state but an action"), by far the best of the four non-Roumanian ones I've heard (And probably a match for any of those too). Why? Because it allies a exceptionally sensitive and delicate response to a sheer simplicity and directness of phrase and line.
This is a very elaborate, densely polyphonic and cyclical piece (a 4-in-1 structure, like Schoenberg's Op.7 of 1905), and can suffer from any over-elaboration interpretively (This was, I felt, the main drawback with Vilde Frang's group...).
So BIS have done it again. What would I do without them?
At last a recording of one of my musical icons, in the best modern sound, that gets pretty much everything right...
The sense of wild joy at the end is unbridled, but the troubling, frenetic figurations around it remind us, in these troubled times, that it can't last long....perhaps only until your tears dry after the end of it...
Enjoy the release while you can, any way you can!
https://www.qobuz.com/gb-en/album/fe.../oze7g1galoaqa
Gringolts Quartet & Meta4. BIS 24/96 New release via Qobuz-S.
Utterly stunning account of this uniquely remarkable masterpiece (completed in 1900 when Enescu was.....19 years old...! "For me, music is not a state but an action"), by far the best of the four non-Roumanian ones I've heard (And probably a match for any of those too). Why? Because it allies a exceptionally sensitive and delicate response to a sheer simplicity and directness of phrase and line.
This is a very elaborate, densely polyphonic and cyclical piece (a 4-in-1 structure, like Schoenberg's Op.7 of 1905), and can suffer from any over-elaboration interpretively (This was, I felt, the main drawback with Vilde Frang's group...).
So BIS have done it again. What would I do without them?
At last a recording of one of my musical icons, in the best modern sound, that gets pretty much everything right...
The sense of wild joy at the end is unbridled, but the troubling, frenetic figurations around it remind us, in these troubled times, that it can't last long....perhaps only until your tears dry after the end of it...
Enjoy the release while you can, any way you can!
https://www.qobuz.com/gb-en/album/fe.../oze7g1galoaqa
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