Jürg Frey, Quatuor Bozzini: Jürg Frey: String Quartets: reviews

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Jürg Frey: String Quartets

Jürg Frey, Quatuor Bozzini

Jürg Frey: String Quartets

Edition Wandelweiser | EWR 0410 | 2006

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Never Enough String Quartets!

by Grant Chu Covell in La Folia (USA), December 1, 2006 |3178|

“This otherworldly quartet conjures the a cappella passages of Verdi’s Requiem.”

Frey’s [Streichquartett], while likewise partaking of a Feldmanesque aura, realizes something more static and compact. Even on repeated hearings the Swiss composer’s work ends abruptly. [(Unbetitelt) VI] contains long solo passages of uneven scales, reminding one of skyward ladders. Its few chordal moments startle. The two Zwei allerletzte Sächelchen are sub-minute phrases. Frey’s hushed [Streichquartett no 2] will take your breath away, notwithstanding a resemblance to one’s final earthly moments. EWR captures a delicate sonority, sounding like quiet humming, muted bowing and hushed sul ponticello tremolando. This otherworldly quartet conjures the a cappella passages of Verdi’s Requiem.


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  • Richard Pinnell Blog, August 22, 2007
    “… this album is achingly beautiful and is dripping with the intensity and sensuality created by a group of musicians playing difficult music with great passion…”

Jürg Frey, Quatuor Bozzini: Jürg Frey: String Quartets: reviews

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