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Wolf, Fine Arts
String Quartet in D Minor / Italian Serenade
Genre: Classical

Track Listings (5) - Disc #1
1. Qt in d 'Entbehren Sollst Du, Sollst Entbehren': First Movt: Grave - Leidenschaftlich Bewegt
2. Qt in d 'Entbehren Sollst Du, Sollst Entbehren': Second Movt: Scherzo. Resolut
3. Qt in d 'Entbehren Sollst Du, Sollst Entbehren': Third Movt: Langsam
4. Qt in d 'Entbehren Sollst Du, Sollst Entbehren': Fourth Movt: Sehr Lebhaft
5. Italian Ser in G

CD Details

All Artists: Wolf, Fine Arts
Title: String Quartet in D Minor / Italian Serenade
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Hanssler Classics
Original Release Date: 6/26/2001
Re-Release Date: 5/15/2001
Genre: Classical
Styles: Chamber Music, Historical Periods, Classical (c.1770-1830)
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPCs: 040888302421, 4010276011347

Synopsis

Album Description

Arguably, the greatest lieder composer who ever lived, Hugo Wolf was indisputably his own worst enemy. Alienating fellow composers and potential performers did little to advance his career and even his own father was forced to write? You have already adopted all Beethoven?s waywardness and bad habits??! The resemblance with the Titan is more than circumstantial in Wolf?s early String Quartet in d minor. Drawing heavily upon Beethoven?s F minor Quartet, op. 95 for its inspiration, Wolf?s Quartet is a restless tour de force, gorgeously scored for the ensemble. Standing at the work?s center is a sublime slow movement that sounds as if Schubert had composed Tristan und Isolde. The program concludes with Wolf?s lighter-than-air ?Italian Serenade?, handsomely performed by the energetic Fine Arts Quartet

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CD Reviews

Why isn't Wolf more popular?

Linda McDougall | Guanajuato, Mexico | 06/10/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I don't care what his daddy said, or who influenced him - this CD by the 10 star Fine Arts Quartet is a tour de force - and the reviewer is absolutely right-on with his "Schubert/Tristan and Isolde" comment.

There are so many delicate nuances and innuendoes in each piece that giving a professional opinion is ridiculous. I believe Wolf does the same thing as Schubert and Mahler: pushes us beyond where we're willing to go - beyond the comfort zone into something dangerous to the preconceptions of our ear...those long, relentlessly beautiful passages with a kind of mesmerizing stillness. This is more than what we've been taught to expect from chamber music, and the Fine Arts Quartet is absolutely into it with extraordinary skill and a grand capacity to put us into the heart of this gifted and troubled composer."