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Review title: Second-best Prokofiev, pleasantly played
Product review: Bad reviews aren't popular at Amazon, but the good reviews of this CD are to my mind rather misleading. Prokofiev did not successfully translate his quirky, tangy idiom to the string quartet, and these two works are generally considered glib failures of imaginaiton as well. Prokfiev's idiom depended on several things that are absent here: soaring, sweet string lines, motor rhythms backed up by strong percussion, tunefulness, and often a folkloric foundation.These quartets contain a bit of his idiom, but there's no message. They are too timid and faceless. One can tell that they're by Prokofiev, but comparisons with Bartok, Schonberg, or Shostakovich are wishful thinking.
