Apollon Musagete Quartett - Russian Soul: Tchaikovsky Prokofiev Shostakovich (2014) {OehmsClassics}
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Classical / Romantic / Chamber Music / String Quartet
| It's hard to
know what to make of the Russian Soul title of this release by Poland's
young Apollon Musagète Quartet. Is the program, with only Shostakovich
from the truly nationalist side of the Russian compositional roster,
supposed to represent "the Russian soul?" Or just a Russian brand of
soul? In any event, only the Shostakovich String Quartet No. 4 in D
major, Op. 83, fits the general stereotype of the inward, melancholy,
perhaps self-destructive Russian soul. Tchaikovsky's popular String
Quartet No. 1 in D major, Op. 11, of 1871, is both the first true
efflorescence of the composer's proto-neo-classic Mozartian side and
nearly the first evidence of his ability to write a real heartbreaker of
a good tune, in the slow movement (track 2). |
