With works by: Erwin Schulhoff (1894-1942), Gavriil Popov (1904-1972)
-Erwin Schulhoff: "Five Pieces For String Quartet"
-Gavriil Popov: *String Quartet in C Major, Op . 61 ”Quartet-Symphony”
*World-premiere recording
1 CD
Artists: Quartet Berlin-Tokyo
Label:QBT Collection
Length: 72 min
Release Date: 27.11.2021
Reviews / Awards :
Nominated for 5OPUS KLASSIKawards*Germany’s most prestigious classical music prize
-Ensemble of the year
-Chamber music performance
-World premiere recording
-Innovations prize for sustainability
-Editorial achievements
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"A major world-premiere."
"The Quartet Berlin-Tokyo throws itself into the fray, palpably relishing Popov’s creative volatility."
(The StradMagazine UK, 20.4.2022 )
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★★★★★ Music
★★★★★ Sound
“Incredible: what a masterpiece! Gavriil Popov's "Quartet Symphony" is epic like a Schubert quartet. No trace of melancholy, but rather very lively. [...] An exhilarating experience. The Quartet Berlin-Tokyo dared to make the first recording ever and played the immensely difficult piece daringly and easily, penetratingly and elegantly, sky-stormingly and gently. The young musicians [...] have a tone that is both fine and robust and harmonize fabulously together in Popov's sophisticated sound fabrics. (Schulhoff's "Five Pieces") "...The fabulous quartet presents them all as sparkling jewels."
( Fono Forum Magazine Germany, 2.2022 )
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ALBUMOF THE WEEK
"...exquisitely played."
( Slipped Disc UK, 5.3.2022 )
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"A complex masterpiece - masterfully interpreted by the Quartet Berlin-Tokyo.
A MUST-HEAR."
( Deutschlandfunk Kultur, Germany 16.3.2022 )
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“Without any exaggeration, the Berlin-Tokyo Quartet is the most perfect string quartet of our time – in terms of precision, culture, art of characterization and musical context.
The Quartet-Symphony is One of the great masterpieces of Soviet music. The performances, released on their own label, are phenomenal and unsurpassable in every way.”
(
Neue Musikzeitung, Germany 6.2022 )
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★★★★★
"...the QBT strings really have something to share here."
