Ah, Quatuor…! Probably the greatest wartime musical document we have, the best efforts of Tippett, Shostakovich, Copland et al. notwithstanding.
It was interesting to compare this with the one other recording I have, the 1991 one with Loriod on piano. Mark Simpson, I think, pips Wolfgang Meyer for intensity in Abîme des Oiseaux…but then I pretty much expected him to! The biggest surprise was how much slower than (albeit just as effective as!) Fischer-Dieskau and Loriod Elschenbroich and Zhang are in the first of the Louanges.
Ah, Quatuor…! Probably the greatest wartime musical document we have, the best efforts of Tippett, Shostakovich, Copland et al. notwithstanding.
It was interesting to compare this with the one other recording I have, the 1991 one with Loriod on piano. Mark Simpson, I think, pips Wolfgang Meyer for intensity in Abîme des Oiseaux…but then I pretty much expected him to! The biggest surprise was how much slower than (albeit just as effective as!) Fischer-Dieskau and Loriod Elschenbroich and Zhang are in the first of the Louanges.