String Quartet in E minor (Fauré)
from Fauré & Franck: String Quartets (CDA67664)
1 Allegro moderato [6'03]
2 Andante [8'34]
3 Allegro [8'19]
22 minutes 56 seconds 3 tracks
‘This is a notably well-recorded disc; we're placed, it seems, right in the middle of the music-making, and from the opening bars of the Franck we feel the intensity of the Dante's commitment … b ...
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‘Written just before his death in an accident in 1890, Franck's only string quartet pumps with nervous energy and heady hothouse emotions, brilliantly realised here by the Dante players’ (The Independent)