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| Schnittke: Complete String Quartets | 
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| Artists: Alfred Schnittke, Hank Dutt, David Harrington, Joan Jeanrenaud, John Sherba, Kronos Quartet
Label: Nonesuch
Category: Music
List Price: $33.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (7 reviews)
Sales Rank: 131522
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 79500
UPC: 075597950021
EAN: 0075597950021
ASIN: B000006E4L
Release Date: May 19, 1998
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 Kronos doesn't understand Schnittke! November 3, 1999
18 out of 31 found this review helpful
Listening to the Kronos quartet playing Schnittke's Fourth Quartet is purely an intellectual exercice. In their seriousness they don't seem to capture the emotional spirit of the late composer. Compare it to the intelligent, emotional rendition of the Fourth Quartet by the Alban Berg Quartet (dedicatee of the work) and you will measure the ocean between them... Kronos should smile for a change! On another note, the CD's booklet is interesting and fun too!
Again listen to the alternative: Alban Berg Quartet for the Fourth and Borodine for the Third and the First... The discovery is worth spending a bit more time and effort!
I recommend also the Arditti String Quartet sensitive and intelligent performance. The Schnittke second quartet is incredibly rich in colors. The pulsation is always present, the folk melodies underlying the rich texture are well defined and never forced. The fourth movement is simply out of this world.
This performance shames the fashionable, predictable, mono dimensional Kronos.
 A must-have for lovers of 20th Century music September 22, 1998
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
Kronos plays these quartets with passion and fire. No matter how "abstract" the musical material, the emotional impact of the music is deeply felt. Some of the emotional material is very dark (and it's particularly poignant that this collection is coming out in the year of the composer's death), but I came away intensely exhilerated. Anyone who loves Bartok and Shostakovich should definitely have these as part of their collection.
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