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School of Music, Cardiff University At times, the French quartet’s feel for the ravishing soundworlds of their compatriots, Debussy and Dutilleux, took one’s breath awayThe string quartets by Debussy and Dutilleux are classics of the genre and, in this concert, the Quatuor Psophos’s instinct for the ravishing soundworlds of their French compatriots made for a rewarding experience. From its opening bars, Dutilleux’s quartet, Ainsi la Nuit, takes the listener into another world: less a dreamlike state than a heightened sensory awareness; apparently the dark of night, but transparent of texture; mysterious without ever being menacing; evocative and ecstatic. Yet the Psophos were quite matter-of-fact in their delivery. There was nothing in the way of showiness: it was the tone-colours they produced and the aura they created that held the attention, and sometimes one’s breath. Continue reading...
2015-01-22 19:45:06
Lemieux/Vignoles/Quatuor Psophos (Naïve) Continue reading...
2013-03-16 01:03:00
Just some fine Mendelssohn recordings
F. Mendelssohn - Symphonies 4 & 5 Anima Eterna - Jos van Immerseel (period instruments) F. Mendelssohn - String Quartets Opus 44 & 80 Quatuor Psophos F. Mendelssohn - Symphonies No 3 & 4 The Philharmonia - Tamas Vasary F. Mendelssohn - Concertos Sinfonia, C. Bor - violin, E. Rodrigues - piano [Flacs & scans] F. Mendelssohn (1809-1847)Symphony No 4 "Italian"Symphony No 5 "Reformation" Anima Eterna - Jos van Immerseel Label: Channel Classics CCS 6694Recorded April 1994 If you cannot see the audio controls, listen/download the audio file here[Flacs and scans]Download F. MendelssohnString Quartet Opus 44 No 1String Quartet Opus 80 Quatuor Psophos Label: Zig Zag ZZT 030702Recorded December 2001 If you cannot see the audio controls, listen/download the audio file here[Flacs and scans]Download F. MendelssohnSymphony No 3 "Scottish"Symphony No 4 "Italian" The Philharmonia - Tamás Vásáry Label: Collins Classics 10182Recorded […]
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2013-03-15 06:47:05
Marie-Nicole Lemieux at the Opéra Bastille Amphitheatre
[…] stopped giggling, then it was down to business: a generous selection of songs by Alma Mahler, Chausson's Chanson perpetuelle, Elgar's Sea Pictures and music by Guillaume Lekeu. The last of these was an entirely new name to me. Born in Belgium and educated in Paris, he was only twenty-four years old when he died of typhoid fever, leaving behind a variety of vocal, orchestral and chamber works. We first heard his langorous, haunting Molto adagio from Quatuor Psophos, and then three of his songs – "Sur une tombe", "Ronde" and "Nocturne" – all indicative of an intriguing, individual voice. Who knows what he might have achieved had he not died so very young. I've heard Marie-Nicole live only once before, in the Verdi Requiem in Zürich two years ago, but I cannot get enough of her on disc: her latest album, of Mozart, Gluck, Haydn and Graun, is not to […]
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