Quatuor à cordes op.67. lieder

Description

Brahms and Schoenberg united by the Kuss Quartet. For this fourth album on Onyx, the Kuss Quartet has chosen a repertoire dedicated to Brahms and Schoenberg. A relevant choice when one knows how deeply Brahms' musical thinking influenced Schoenberg, even if he described it as “... the natural extension of a well-understood tradition.” For the three lieder by Brahms selected and the second quartet by Schoenberg in these last two movements, they called upon the German soprano Mojca Erdmann, who gives a poignant interpretation of these pieces. The Kuss Quartet skillfully manages to transition from Brahms' tonal music to Schoenberg's atonality, respecting both as much as the other and making their coexistence natural, simply, far from the scandal caused by the creation of Schoenberg's second quartet in 1908.