http://www.mvdaily.com/
'Brahms laboured long over a first publishable quartet, as over a
first symphony. Legend has it that twenty quartets were destroyed
along the way, probably each a hundred per cent finer than works
readily put out by his contemporaries. In both cases he ended up in C
minor, a key he visited seldom, and mostly in barnstorming mood,
breathing sound and fury, thoroughly conscious that his supporters saw
him as inheriting Beethoven's mantle. It so happens that this is the
Brahms most according to current performance practice, where there is
much excitement and brilliance but less occasion for dalliance or
introspection.'
- The Takacs Quartet plays Brahms, reviewed by Robert Anderson in
today's Music & Vision
|
|