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| ARTIST: | Heinz Holliger |
| CATEGORY: | Music |
| MANUFACTURER: | Ecm Records |
| TYPE: | Chamber Music & Recitals, Classical |
| MEDIA: | Audio CD |
| TRACKS: | Oboe Quartet For Oboe, Violin, Viola, Violoncello, Statement - Remembering Aaron, Riconoscenza Per Goffredo Petrassi, Rhapsodic Musings, Fantasy - Remembering Roger, A 6 Letter Letter For English Horn In F, Figment For Cello Alone, Figment II - Remembering Mr. Ives - For Cello Alone, Piri For Oboe Solo, Quartet For Oboe And String Trio - I, Quartet For Oboe And String Trio - II, Quartet For Oboe And String Trio - III |
| UPC: | 028947278726 |
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Customer Reviews of Lauds & Lamentations: Music of Elliot Carter & Yun
Might Ears Won't Adjust Having listened to this numerous times, I can only come to the conclusions that my ears will need much more education if they are to like this style on music, but at the same time, I well appreciate the musical skill of performance here. I risked purchasing this with both purposes in mind, having the highest regard for Holliger.
Some of the Carter compositions easily conform to what I like to listen to, while I'm afraid the Yun selections sound like whale communication to me.
I will continue the experiment though, and listen with an open mind and ear.
Great music, pity about the price
First, the bad news. There's no way an 80-minute recording should be on two full-price discs.
Then, the reasons why you should still think about buying this recording. They are two, the music and the performances.
Elliott Carter's music has become more and more delightfully lyrical as he has grown older, and almost all of the Carter on this disc is from the last few years. The Oboe Quartet is a great piece, hyperactive yet blessed with a miraculous lightness reminiscent of an atonal Haydn. The Four Lauds (one from 1984, the rest very recent) are effectively a 12-minute suite for solo violin, and combine superlatively idiomatic violin writing with a warm lyricism. A Six Letter Letter conjures miraculous melodies from only six notes of the chromatic scale, while the two Figments (the first I think a rather better work than the second) are expressive miniatures for solo cello.
The Yun pieces aren't quite on the same high level as the Carter, but are still impressive. Piri, an intense, keening oboe solo, impresses with its expressionist Angst and microtonal bends, though it is probably a little too long. The Oboe Quartet--Yun's last major work--contrasts slightly dutiful neoclassical outer movements with a deeply expressive, almost atomized slow movement.
Performances are outstanding. Zehetmair and Demenga are outstanding string soloists, but the real star of the disc is the phenomenal Heinz Hollger. He may no longer be young, but his oboe playing is still phenomenally virtuosic and expressive.
Master musicianship
OK, yes, granted, it's overpriced and it spreads one CD's worth of music over two, but the music-making in this set is extraordinary. Most of the pieces by Carter are available elsewhere, but the Four Lauds - extroverted violin solos the composer has arranged into a Bach-like suite - are not, and they are worth the cost of the ticket all by themselves. The Oboe Quartet is one of Carter's most attractive works of recent years, and Holliger and Co. serve up a muscular reading that is perhaps less elegant than the premiere recording on Bridge, but every bit as convincing. The music of Yun was new to me, but I found it immediately engaging. Holliger traverses the extended landscape of "Piri" with delicacy and impeccable phrasing, and anyone who can hold one's attention through a 14-minute oboe solo as consistently as he does deserves some kind of musican-of-the-decade award. Crisp, 3-D sound.