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Title: Delightful darkness
Review: Two old favorites come to life in the hands (and instruments) of the Colorado Quartet. "Death and the Maiden" would probably be on a String Quartet Top 10 list if there were one, so there are many recordings out there, but the energy and precision of this one shoot it into the "must have" category, while Mendelssohn's darkest quartet (written just after the death of his beloved sister, Fanny, and not long before his own) is performed with great depth and emotion. I don't use the word "performed" lightly - so many recordings these days are overproduced and edited until the final product comes out slick and, well, boring. This isn't like that at all - there's a sense of a real performance contained in both works, and that's what really puts this disc over the top.
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