Gustav Mahler: Piano Quartet Alfred Schnittke: Piano Quartet Erich Wolfgang Korngold: Präludium und Fuge* from Suite für 2 Violinen, Violoncello und Klavier (linke Hand), Op. 23 Wang Jie: Songs for Mahler in the Absence of Words Joseph Marx: Klavierquartett in Form einer Rhapsodie
The New York Piano Quartet
Elmira Darvarova, violin Ronald Carbone, viola and *violin Samuel Magill, cello Linda Hall, piano
“[𝐔]𝐥𝐭𝐫𝐚-𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐝, 𝐯𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐥𝐲 𝐝𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐊𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐠𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐱 … the players dig into the music with alacrity, the strings often employing juicy vibrato and slides to emphasise the composers’ expressive points. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐨𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐮𝐧𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐚𝐯𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐝."