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Title: "Hot" Nordic Chamber Music
Review: This is a wonderfully enjoyable disc---all the more so, since it features music with which casual classical music listeners may not be familiar. The Grieg Quartet is tuneful and very much in the spirit of the Brahms string quartets. The Sibelius is much subtler music than I'm used to hearing from the Finnish master: one could say "more intimate", but since his quartet is sub-titled "Intimate Voices" that evaluation becomes somewhat superfluous. The Nielsen was too shot to make much of an impression on me, and I beleive that the inclusion of one of Nielsen's stringquartets (he wrote 4) would have balanced the disc better: 3 great Nordic masters---3 string quartets. A very fine disc (and well deserving of its recent Grammy award).
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