Review
Classical Explorer
Dec. 1, 2023
Classical Explorer
Dezember 2023
… The Vienna-based Aron String Quartet play with great understanding - and seriousness. This works beautifully in the Innigkeit of the second movement, the slow centre of the work (intriguingly, I used the word 'Innigkeit' before I read the composer's indication for this movement - 'Langsam und inning'!). First Violinist Ludwig Müller sings the high lines beautifully, and there is some truly wonderful interplay of lines here. …
The richness of sound the Aron Quartet can conjure works a treat here. …
Walter looks more to Brahms and Mahler in his Piano Quintet (and more to the former than the latter overall). The first movement is marked “Mit Energie,” and all players - the quartet now joined by the excellent pianist Massimo Giuseppe Blanchi (who studied with Bruno Canino) - respond in kind. …