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Title: Excellent
Review: ON the spectrum of cool to hot, this is on the cool side. Everything is clear and precise, with each voice coming through. It's almost as if Glenn Gould were reincarnated as a string quartet...But there is also a lot of sensitivity, coherent and powerful interpretation, and real pleasure. They play softly a lot--and I find that refreshing and intriguing. The sound quality (and I have a very good home system) is very fine--as if they are in the room with you.Overall, this is an excellent set--perhaps not up there for me with the Alban Berg (my all time fav), but in its own way on a par with the Tokyo, Italiano, and Takacs. Not ponderous like Borodin or speeded up like Emerson or bland like the Lindays.Given how inexpensive the used versions are, absolutely worth adding to your collection.
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