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Ravishing Recordings Recalling a Gouldian Glamour...

Sébastien Melmoth | Hôtel d'Alsace, PARIS | 03/07/2010

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Ravishing Recordings Recalling a Gouldian Glamour...

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While Glenn Gould's f-minor String Quartet (`Op. 1') is hardly in the Mozartean vein, these (1988-90) performances by the brilliant Viennese ensemble Artis Quartett recall aspects of Gould's revelatory Mozart Sonata readings: for in its discourse with Mozart's texts, the Artis achieves realizations of resplendent clarity, control, and conviction which amount to something like ethical virtue.

This high-minded aesthetic rectitude is effected via crisp articulation, bright dynamics, and a certain dry levity--a veritable joie d'esprit.

The psychic animation and auditory colour of these readings would have been a joy to Gould's heart.

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With these `Haydn' Quartets, some auditors may suppose the ABQ a bit shrill or the Emersons somewhat clinical; but these vibrant executions by the Artis Quartett will scarcely fail to satisfy, for as with Gould's Mozart Project, they have successfully said what they wanted to say about Mozart.

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Gould, K.310 Piano Sonatas 3

Gould, K.331 The Mozart Piano Sonatas, Vol. 4

Gould, Complete Mozart Sonatas Mozart: The Complete Piano Sonatas; Fantasias, K397 & K475

Gould, String Quartet Op. 1 Gould: String Quartet No. 1

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ABQ Mozart: The Ten Great String Quartets

Emerson Mozart:6 "Haydn" Quartets

Amadeus Mozart: The String Quartets

QI Mozart: String Quartets No. 16 K. 428 & No. 17 K. 458

Guarneri Mozart: Six Quartets Dedicated to Haydn

Prazak Mozart: "Haydn" Quartets [Hybrid SACD]

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