Search - Antonin Dvorak :: Dvorak: Cypresses/String Quartet Op.106

Audubon Quartet's newest release: Dvorak for the soul

carterth | New York | 02/02/2000

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This latest disc in the ongoing series of Audubon performances of Czech and Hungarian music on the Centaur label is on a par with their wonderful Dochnanyi recording (String Quartets 1 and 2 and the Serenade), both acoustically and emotionally. The sound is clear but even warmer, with beautiful profiling of the individual instruments and a natural blend of tone color. The pieces themselves are not often recorded, programmed or broadcast (in my own experience). Since they represent Dvorak at his most rapturous, the disc was a welcome revelation.My fifteen year old son who lives for rock 'n roll but is dabbling in things like the Mozart Requium came bounding downstairs as I was playing the recording, commented on its beauty (Cypresses), asked to borrow it, and played himself to sleep that very evening. The savage breast indeed."