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TCHAIKOVSKY: String Quartet No. 2 in F major / Souvenir de Florence

TCHAIKOVSKY: String Quartet No. 2 in F major / Souvenir de Florence

Released Date:
01 Mar 2012


Artists:

Vermeer Quartet


Rami Solomonow

Soloist

Vermeer Quartet



Record Label
Cedille

Genre:

Chamber


Classical

Total Time - 73:06
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String Quartet No. 2 in F major, Op. 22

  
1 I. Adagio - Moderato assai, quasi andantino 12:17
  Vermeer Quartet
2 II. Scherzo: Allegro giusto 6:05
  Vermeer Quartet
3 III. Andante ma non tanto 12:27
  Vermeer Quartet
4 IV. Finale: Allegro con moto 6:07
  Vermeer Quartet
     
 

Souvenir de Florence, Op. 70

  
5 I. Allegro con spirito 11:06
 Rami Solomonow Soloist
6 II. Adagio cantabile e con moto 11:13
 Rami Solomonow Soloist
7 III. Allegretto moderato 6:49
 Rami Solomonow Soloist
8 IV. Allegro vivace 7:02
 Rami Solomonow Soloist


 The internationally celebrated Vermeer Quartet, known for its extensive, major-label recordings of standard repertoire, has turned to its hometown record label, Chicago’s Cedille Records, for a program of important yet surprisingly neglected Tchaikovsky works.

 
This recording offers Tchaikovsky’s profoundly moving Quartet No. 2,  the eloquent Souvenir de Florence, performed in its less-often recorded - but more intimate and effective - original version for string sextet.
 
The Vermeer’s members are Shmuel Ashkenasi, violin; Mathias Tacke, violin; Richard Young, viola and Marc Johnson, cello. For the sextet, they’re joined by Rami Solomonow, principal violist of the Chicago Lyric Opera Orchestra, and John Sharp, principal cellist of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
 
The quartet, formed in 1969 at the Marlboro Festival, has since performed at virtually all the world’s most prestigious festival and in every major city in North America and Europe. The Vermeer is "acclaimed for solid performances of repertory of all period," notes the New Grove Dictionary of American Music.
 
"Cedille captures the spirited and virtuosic playing of the world-class Vermeer Quartet in world-class sound." 
 
Fanfare

 Passionate, extroverted performances of the Second Quartet and D Minor Sextet. A perfect coupling - and beautifully recorded, too. Recommended, especially if you’re looking for a CD version of ’Souvenir de Florence.’ " 

 
New York Daily News
 



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