Comment 10/16/2019 - 11:32

Brave decision from the Simply Quartet from Vienna to tackle Nielsen's last string quartet, the F minor quartet Op 44. It's an altogether more slippery customer than its predecessors, contemporary with Nielsen's opera Maskarade. This Austrian quartet have evidently worked hard to try to access the heart of it. Sometimes a bold move like this can pay off...especially when almost all their competitors are opting for Nielsen's far more Brahms-like Op 13.