Vermeer Quartet - Béla Bartók: The Complete String Quartets (2005)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 667 Mb | Total time: 02:34:23 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naxos | # 8.557543-44 | Recorded: 2001-2004
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 667 Mb | Total time: 02:34:23 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naxos | # 8.557543-44 | Recorded: 2001-2004
One of the great recent versions of - arguably - the towering string quartets of the 20th century is by frequent Buffalo visitors the Vermeer Quartet. Three decades separate the composition of the first Bartok Quartet from the sixth and last. Not only is the stylistic diversity within them often much exaggerated but so too are the difficulties presented by the third quartet, which, for all its dissonance, is so structurally cohesive (it's the shortest at 15 minutes - half the length of the first, fifth and sixth) that it remains one of the most powerful works in the quartet repertoire.