Forbes Classical CD of the Week

…The latter is very late-period Smetana, where mental trouble, probably due to syphilis, was already rearing its ugly head. It was written just a year before Smetana—long deaf by then—died in Prague’s Kateřinky Lunatic Asylum. The torn quality can remind, if faintly, of late Schumann—but the language firmly retains its Central European accent. The Talich Quartet’s warm, direct sound and rich acoustic add much to the immediacy of the music. The feeding frenzy of the third movement Allegro opening in that Second Quartet, for example, is an amazing witness to this,…

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B.Smetana , SQ4ts, Talich String Quartet, La Dolce Volta

#CDoftheWeek ftom Sep.7: https://t.co/DJw8ZLPSCY on @LaDolceVolta w/#TalichQuartet in #Sm… https://t.co/jZxYQM9y7j pic.twitter.com/RZmyXT1Vcl — Jens F. Laurson (@ClassicalCritic) September 17, 2016