Iain Simons ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>I recently obtained a new recording of Schumann's string quartets nos
>1 and 3 as performed by the St. Lawrence String Quartet for EMI.  Has
>anybody else heard this recording? Any comments/criticisms, etc.? With
>the exception of a rather "slick" and over-produced sound, I was impressed
>with the dynamics.

I've not heard this but did hear them in the flesh to or three years back.
They played a Haydn quartet, a Bartok (4?) and I don't recall what else,
maybe the Ravel.  I seem to remember not being overwhelmed by their Haydn,
quite liking the Bartok - although a friend who is Hungarian by birth and
an ethnomusicologist by profession considered that "they f***ed it up!" -
and being impressed by the Ravel.

I have no real sense, from all that, of what their Schumann might be like
- maybe a little smooth?

Deryk Barker
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