Ravel / Faure: String Quartets

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MAURICE RAVEL / GABRIEL FAURE
Ravel / Faure: String Quartets
Ad Libitum Quartet

[ Naxos / CD ]

Release Date: Wednesday 20 August 2008

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Rosette [highest rating] - Penguin Stereo Guide - "A new bargain disc finds a Romanian ensemble fully at home in the string quartets of Ravel and Fauré." (Performance & Sound 5 Stars).
- BBC Music Magazine

Rosette [highest rating] - Penguin Stereo Guide

"Ravel wrote has quartet, his first important piece of chamber music, in 1903 and dedicated it to Gabriel Fauré. 20 years later Fauré wrote his first and only string quartet, and it turned out to be his very last piece. The Ad Libitum is the resident quartet of the Moldova Philharmonic in Iasi, Romania. Their playing is beautiful. I am perfectly at peace listening to their Ravel, and while I am listening, I imagine no other Ravel quartet recording could possibly be this good."
- American Record Guide (Elaine Fine), September-October, 2000

"A new bargain disc finds a Romanian ensemble fully at home in the string quartets of Ravel and Fauré." (Performance & Sound 5 Stars).
- BBC Music Magazine

"Le quatuor roumain Ad Libitum nous donne ici à entendre une lecture intense et fine de deux chef-d'oeuvre de la musique française."
"Romanian quartet AD Libitum gives us here an intense and fine reading of two masterpieces of French music."
- Répetoire (Philippe Simon), May, 2000

Tracks:

RAVEL:
String Quartet in F major
FAURE:
String Quartet in E minor, Op. 121