Bach - Die Kunst der Fuge - CD

ENGLISH

A kaleidoscope of almost Shakespearean variety. The quartet shows us every kind of human (or cosmic) drama, from an intimate dialogue up to cinemascope battle scenes, from haunting nightmares to glorious sunsets - never boring. Each movement has its individual character and dramatic effect, the quartet's tone is warm and cultivated, recorded without any breathing or mechanical noise; throughout in a non-vibrato clarity; only at the rare points when one player tries to place a somehow "baroque" ornament, we can hear that this must be an unknown field for them. Their fine sensibility for different moods, and for each other allows many delights - in the Canon alla Decima, we can listen to a sensuous, erotic dialogue (despite some imprecise intonation of the soprano); and the final, unfinished fugue on b-a-c-h gives us, far from romantic sentimentality, a moving impression of what it probably never was: the last sigh of a fulfilled life.