…German composer Eduard Franck…certainly knows how to write for this medium. Each voice is given its own space so that its function always comes through clearly, especially with the warm, superbly balanced engineering here, and with these players, whose tuning, rhythm, and ensemble is so perfect one would think they play as a unit all the time. They also give superb forward movement to both works.
Opus 51 has more substance. Its inner lines pulse with life as the players bring out leading voices…The Scherzo is very nice, and the theme-and-variations finale has the cleverest, loveliest, most inventive writing on the album… © 2012
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