With their efficiency of Schubert’s greatest identified quartet, Demise and the Maiden, the Kuss Quartet embrace two works written specifically for them by composers whose music remains to be little identified within the UK. Iris ter Schiphorst’s Sei Gutes Muts provides a recorder (Maurice Steger) to the 4 strings, and introduces whispered phrases from the textual content of the Schubert music that kinds the idea of the second motion of his D minor quartet, to which the recorder participant reacts because the strings pulse round him. Marc Andre’s Seven Items are miniatures, the longest of them barely 100 seconds lengthy, every a concentrated examine in a way or a string texture.
Whether or not these three works make a convincing package deal is one other matter. There’s something reasonably brittle in regards to the Kuss’s strategy to the Schubert, which by no means fairly captures the work’s extraordinary dramatic and lyrical vary. In a quartet that’s so acquainted and which has been recorded by a century’s price of nice string ensembles, it wants one thing greater than the addition of the 2 modern scores to make it stand out.
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