015 CD / Benjanim Britten: String Quartets No. 2 & 3

The Auryn Series Vol. II

Benjanim Britten

Quartet No. 2 in C op. 36
String Quartet No. 3 op. 94
Auryn Quartet

EAN/barcode: 4009850001508

 

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"[...] The Auryn Quartet with their good feel for current trends have delivered an overwhelming performance of Britten’s last two Quartets [...]" (FonoForum)

4 reviews for 015 CD / Benjanim Britten: String Quartets No. 2 & 3

  1. Neue Musikzeitung

    … And they point to the ruptures, the unattainable, the disappointed longings. In this way, Britten’s music gains a stark expressiveness that one would not readily expect from the composed material alone. It is precisely this interpretative closeness to the musical object, this immediacy, that is captured with great technical precision and preserved in the sonic result at every stage.

  2. Stereoplay

    … Certainly, in the 1960s the Amadeus Quartet played the two scherzi of the third string quartet dedicated to them with a touch more decisiveness and aggression than the Auryn Quartet does in these Bartók–Shostakovich echoes. But unlike the Amadei, the Auryns have the courage to perform the so-called solo movement of this quartet with that vibrato-free calm that already foreshadows the transcendent moment of the motivically Britten-linked Serenissima finale: a slow death in Venice. …

  3. Die Zeit

    … one of the most striking chamber music productions this autumn, a thoroughly successful one …

  4. Fono Forum

    Stern des Monats
    The Auryn Quartet with their good feel for current trends have delivered an overwhelming performance of Britten’s last two Quartets [...]

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