NI 2508/10
Total Playing Time
3 hours 4 mins
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Mozart
Complete String Quartets
Volume 1
American String Quartet
Peter Winograd, violin, Laurie Carney, violin
Daniel Avshalomov, viola, David Geber, ‘cello
No music plays itself - but the balance of creative and recreative roles varies for each composition, and the means by which the balance is struck must agree with the ideal of the music. Mozart, in that light, is crystalline. With Beethoven, by contrast, one strives and the struggle does not harm but rather enhances a music which is muscle and bone; with Haydn, an ever-present wit and unfailing instrumental sense give freedom; a music of belly and brain. But there is no more sensitive litmus for the interpreter than Mozart: between the acid of 'notes only' performance practice where the music is presumed to speak for itself, and the base of personality cult - between these is perfect Mozart ...
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