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Quatuor Diotima, Sandrine Piau, Marie-Nicole Lemieux - Schoenberg, Webern, Berg: The String Quartet and the Voice (2010)

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Quatuor Diotima, Sandrine Piau, Marie-Nicole Lemieux - Schoenberg, Webern, Berg: The String Quartet and the Voice (2010)

Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern, Alban Berg - The String Quartet and the Voice (2010)
Quatuor Diotima, string quartet; Sandrine Piau, soprano; Marie-Nicole Lemieux, contralto

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Genre: Classical | Label: Naive | # V 5240 | Time: 01:04:19

Recordings that include strings quartets by Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern are common, but an album that includes music for quartet and voice by each of them is a rarity. Schoenberg's Second String Quartet, with a part for soprano in its third and fourth movements, is standard repertoire, but the version of Berg's Lyric Suite with a vocal part in the final movement is highly unusual, and Webern's bagatelle with voice, an unpublished movement apparently once intended to be part of the Six Bagatelles, Op. 9, receives what is probably its first recording. Novelty aside, the high standards of these performances make this a formidable release. Founded just before the turn of the millennium, Quatuor Diotima plays with the assurance and mutual understanding of a seasoned ensemble. The quartet has a lean, clean sound and the ensemble is immaculate, playing with exquisite expressiveness, an ideal combination for this repertoire. The supplely nuanced tempo shifts and the knowing phrasing are evidence that the music of the Second Viennese School is a language in which the quartet is absolutely fluent; these pieces seem to be part of the players' musical DNA, and every line and gesture sounds colloquially meaningful. The aphoristic movements of Webern's Six Bagatelles, which in the wrong hands can sound random and disjunct, are each revealed as miniature dramas. The vocal bagatelle, with a text by the composer referring to his mother, lasts less than a minute and fits beautifully with the established set. Heard immediately after the Webern, Berg's largely twelve tone Lyric Suite sounds, well, absolutely lyrical, an effusion of Romantic passion, which it was. Its vocal version is hardly less obscure than the Webern, but the Kronos Quartet has recorded it with Dawn Upshaw. In the Schoenberg, soprano Sandrine Piau's performance is perfectly matched to the quartet's: expressive, but always pure and focused. Contralto Marie-Nicole Lemieux's voice has a little more vibrato than is ideal for the Webern and the Berg, but she sings with precision and passion. Naïve's sound is clean, nicely ambient, and well-balanced, but the music is recorded at a very quiet level, so a boost in volume may be necessary to hear all the details, and they shouldn't be missed.

Review by Stephen Eddins, Allmusic.com

Quatuor Diotima, Sandrine Piau, Marie-Nicole Lemieux - Schoenberg, Webern, Berg: The String Quartet and the Voice (2010)



Quatuor Diotima, Sandrine Piau, Marie-Nicole Lemieux - Schoenberg, Webern, Berg: The String Quartet and the Voice (2010)



Quatuor Diotima, Sandrine Piau, Marie-Nicole Lemieux - Schoenberg, Webern, Berg: The String Quartet and the Voice (2010)



Performers:

Quatuor Diotima:

- Yun-Peng Zhao, violin
- Naaman Sluchin, violin
- Franck Chevalier, viola
- Pierre Morlet, cello

Sandrine Piau, soprano (3, 4)
Marie-Nicole Lemieux, contralto (11, 17)


Tracklist:

Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)

String Quartet No.2 in F sharp minor, with soprano, Op.10
01. I. Massig (06:13)
02. II. Sehr Rasch (06:45)
03. III. Langsam. 'Litanei' (05:41)
04. IV. Sehr Langsam. 'Entruckung' (11:38)


Anton Webern (1883-1945)

Six Bagatelles for string quartet, Op. 9
05. I. Massig (00:33)
06. II. Leight bewegt (00:22)
07. III. Ziemlich fliessend (00:24)
08. IV. Sehr langsam (00:55)
09. V. Ausserst lagsam (01:21)
10. VI. Fliessend (00:42)
11. Langsam. 'Schmerz immer, Blick nach oben' (01:04)


Alban Berg (1885-1935)

Lyric Suite, for string quartet, version with soprano
12. I. Allegro gioviale (03:04)
13. II. Andante amoroso (05:53)
14. III. Allegro misterioso - Trio estatico (03:12)
15. IV. Adagio appassionato (05:53)
16. V. Presto delirando (04:26)
17. VI. Largo desolato "De Profundis Clamavi" (06:07)


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