Colorado String Quartet: Brahms, String Quartets Op. 51
American Record Guide Review
What I like most about this recording, besides
the immaculate intonation (rare in performances of these pieces) and extremely precise
rhythm (the music is loaded with duplets
against triplets), is the fact that the recording favors the inner voices. The quartet plays the
music from tile inside out, building on a very
strong center of second violin and viola.
Parnassus has recorded them so that as listeners
we get a view from the inside where we can
observe the crystalline formations of the music
like a stargazer looking at the sky on a very clear night
These four people play with such a like
mind that it is easy to imagine that they could
he playing irnstruments made by the same
maker, of wood from the same tree. The
Colorado Quartet, whose members come
mostly from California, had its beginnings at
the University of Colorado at Boulder and is
now based in New York. They have had an
impressive international reputation for many
years and have won many awards, including
the Naumburg Chamber Music Award and
First Prize at the Banff International String
Quartet Competition, both in 1983. From this
recording it is clear why. For a real treat, listen
with the score!
FINE American Record Guide November/December 1997
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