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摘要

Founded in 1946, the Juilliard Quartet has had various changes of personnel: these recordings are the first to feature lead-violinist Areta Zhulla, who joined in 2018. Her companions are Ronald Copes (vln), Roger Tapping (vla) - ex Takacs Qt and from the UK -and Astrid Schween (vlc). You can see videos of them playing the complete Bartok and recording the Beethoven finale, on their website's home page. We had admirable mono and stereo Bartok cycles with earlier lineups but the Juillards' Beethoven was mostly considered 'transatlantic' and hardbitten. It's a different picture now, with a closer-knit production sound too. There's raptness in the Beethoven Adagio, brio in the 'theme russe' scherzo and finale. Acerbity and 'night sounds' in the Bartok [trk 6] give way to the affable Dvorak Qt - in all a really enjoyable programme.