Where D. 956 is concerned, CSQ also has the good fortune of having established a musical and personal friendship with Hoffman since 1996. The result is that his own contribution to the quintet fits in perfectly with their “listening-based” approach to performance. It may be easier to appreciate this practice when one is observing it in action, but it is also strikingly evident on this new recording. Beyond the technical challenges is a four-movement composition that extends across a broad panorama of emotional dispositions, covering ecstatic mania, intense despair, and what may well be the most successful capture of Zen quietude in nineteenth-century music, if not in music history. It is through the intimate chemistry between Hoffman and CSQ that every last detail of every last form of expression can emerge with a visceral clarity. - Stephen Smoliar reviews our new Schubert Quintet recording - officially released in about an hour (Pacific time, anyway!) on Avie Records.
Posted on: Tue, 13 May 2014 05:45:48 +0000
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