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| Peteris Vasks: String Quartet No. 4 | 
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| Creators: Peteris Vasks, Kronos Quartet
Label: Nonesuch
Category: Music
List Price: $10.98
Buy New: $7.95
You Save: $3.03 (28%)
Buy New/Used from $5.94
Avg. Customer Rating:  (10 reviews)
Sales Rank: 149448
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.7 x 0.5
MPN: 79695
UPC: 075597969528
EAN: 0075597969528
ASIN: B0000AN4FI
Release Date: August 19, 2003
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
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 Great Work March 11, 2004
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I agree with the comments that the release of this CD and the Berg CD separately is very irritating, however I would not want that to take away from the fact that this is a truly great piece of music and a beautiful recording. While it may be somewhat irritating to have to buy a CD with half an hour of music on it, if you are going to do that, I would highly recommend this one.
 Eventually combine the two, please February 9, 2004
2 out of 7 found this review helpful
Combining Vasks' Fourth String Quartet with Berg's Lyric Suite (the latter features an underused, unfocused Dawn Upshaw) would make a worthy, if not an interesting addition to anyone's contemporary music library. Currently, these pieces are available only as separate releases--by themselves, no filler--which leads one to surmise a regrettable marketing/creative miscalculation on the part of the record company or the musicians. Otherwise, the Kronos quartet deliver powerfully convincing performances of each, and one only hopes these recordings would be preserved in a future 1-CD release. Both were nominated for a Grammy this year so I got them both and took the (financial) bullet for them.
See the distant light January 29, 2004
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Peteris Vasks was new to us and a chance encounter. Well worth the money. Wonderfully performed and recorded, it soars and urges our emotions through a wide range. Technically sound and marvelous compositions, quite a find!
 Hm January 1, 2004
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
While it is true that there isnt that much music on this CD, the music that is on this CD is VERY well done and worth listening to; all the tracks are great. Peteris Vasks tonal language is so wide, making for an unpredictable and genuinely interesting piece of music. And of course, Kronos plays it wonderfully. I also recommend the Berg Lyric Suite too if you like this one.
WOW!!!!!! August 23, 2003
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
I saw the Kronos Quartet perform this work in August of 2002 and I was completely BLOWN away. It is a work that is reminiscent of the string quartets of Terry Riley and of Samuel Barber's masterful "Adagio for Strings". I immediately emailed the quartet to see if they were going to release a recording of it and I was told they had one in the works. This is it, and to this day it melts me. The fifth movement, titled "meditation", is especially beautiful. Buy it. See for yourself. You will not regret it.
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