String Quartet in D Minor / Italian Serenade

Wolf (Artist), Fine Arts (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 15, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Hanssler Classics
• ASIN: B00005MLLL
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #238,503 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Qt in d 'Entbehren Sollst Du, Sollst Entbehren': First Movt: Grave - Leidenschaftlich Bewegt

2. Qt in d 'Entbehren Sollst Du, Sollst Entbehren': Second Movt: Scherzo. Resolut

3. Qt in d 'Entbehren Sollst Du, Sollst Entbehren': Third Movt: Langsam

4. Qt in d 'Entbehren Sollst Du, Sollst Entbehren': Fourth Movt: Sehr Lebhaft

5. Italian Ser in G

Customer Reviews

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Why isn't Wolf more popular?, June 9, 2005

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Linda McDougall "lindamcdougall" (Guanajuato, Mexico) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: String Quartet in D Minor / Italian Serenade (Audio CD)

I don't care what his daddy said, or who influenced him - this CD by the 10 star Fine Arts Quartet is a tour de force - and the reviewer is absolutely right-on with his "Schubert/Tristan and Isolde" comment.
There are so many delicate nuances and innuendoes in each piece that giving a professional opinion is ridiculous. I believe Wolf does the same thing as Schubert and Mahler: pushes us beyond where we're willing to go - beyond the comfort zone into something dangerous to the preconceptions of our ear...those long, relentlessly beautiful passages with a kind of mesmerizing stillness. This is more than what we've been taught to expect from chamber music, and the Fine Arts Quartet is absolutely into it with extraordinary skill and a grand capacity to put us into the heart of this gifted and troubled composer.