"The Nightingale Quartet understand all these aspects: the provocative vitality, the fragile romantic sensitivity and the striking intellectual independence behind it all."

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01 May 2012

KLASSISK

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"Cd'en er et kæmpeskridt for både de unge musikere og for Langgaard (...) vol. 2 kan ikke komme hurtigt nok."

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01 May 2012

International Record Review

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"Comprehensive notes from Bendt Viinholt Nielsen further enhance a disc that confirms the significance of the composer's quartet legacy."

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01 May 2012

Classical Music Sentinel

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"Potentially two more volumes of new music for us to anticipate, hopefully with the same quartet captured in as fine a recording as this one."

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19 April 2012

www.timeout.com/london

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"...really this is the music of a genuine one-off..."

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18 April 2012

Svenska Dagbladet

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"Unga danska Nightingale String Quartet står för febrila tolkningar som överträffar Kontrakvartettens inspelningar från 80-talet"

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18 April 2012

Kristeligt Dagblad

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"Nattergalene spiller med liv og lyst, og man fristes til at sige, at aldrig har Langgaard lydt skarpere."

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12 April 2012

Classical CD Reviews.com

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"the sheer originality of the music, its skilful melodic construction, and its vast array of colours and moods makes it well worth hearing"

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11 April 2012

Fyens Stiftstidende

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"Deres følelsesladede fortolkning fornemmes så perfekt og rigtig: der skal spilles til sveden perler og blodet springer."

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11 April 2012

The Observer

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"Nightingale String Quartet have an uncanny affinity with Langgaard's wildly moody music and conjure plenty of exquisite moments on this surprisingly rewarding recording."

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30 March 2012

Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten

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"Der er noget dejligt uhæmmet over den danske strygekvartets greb om den excentriske Langgaard og hans frodige lydbilleder."

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27 March 2012

Politiken

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"Medrivende og slagkraftigt... De banebrydende tonemalerier i Langgaards anden strygekvartet får nerve og nærvær som aldrig før."

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26 March 2012

Musical Pointers

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"A treasure trove, with the youthful Nightingale String Quartet well placed to have secured such an important contract."

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Strygekvartetter Vol. 1

Format: SACD

Katalognummer: 6.220575

Stregkode: 747313157563

Udgivelsesdato: Mar 2012

Periode: Tidligt 20. århundrede

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Rued Langgaard: Strygekvartetter Vol. 1

11 April 2012 Classics Today (10/10)

David Hurwitz

These are remarkable works. Rued Langgaard was, as we now know, basically nuts. He composed nine string quartets, more or less, because some of them share movements (or revisions of movements). Most date from his early period, the late 1910s and early 1920s, before he turned bitter and was forced to endure the neglect of the Danish musical establishment. They feature a reckless variety of material and encompass a vast expressive range. For example, the titles of the Second Quartet's four movements are: Storm Clouds Receding; Train Passing By; Landscape in Twilight; and The Walk. The Third Quartet has three movements variously headed Rapacious; Artful (sound sample below); and Scoffing. Some might feel the music simply falls apart into a series of disconnected episodes. Maybe it does, but it is consistently entertaining, expressive, and curiously moving.

The performances here are marvelous, make no mistake. The Nightingale String Quartet relishes every bizarre nuance, from the chugging locomotive in the Second Quartet to the Agitato orribilmente and Burlesco rustico sections of the single-movement Sixth Quartet. But the playing never turns crude, and never indulges Langgaard's wackier ideas at the expense of solid musical values. As if that weren't enough, the program concludes with a mostly solemn series of variations on the hymn-tune Oh, Sacred Head, Now Wounded. Keeping this generally slow music moving purposefully forward is no mean feat, but these players manage it effortlessly. The sonics are warm, well balanced, and strikingly realistic. Langgaard was unquestionably a "character", but he knew what he was doing. So do these players, and so does Dacapo in standing by him. Try this.