“With two significant new additions to the quartet repertoire set in the home of earlier Americana, this issue can’t fail to move and delight. The recording registers every detail of these most engaging pieces.”
Home, performed by Miro Quartet, received a fantastic review in the August issue of Gramophone Magazine.
“The Miró Quartet’s new album, ‘Home’ , offers a discourse on the themes thrown up by the title: a nation’s people on the move, music born from the confines of a pandemic, and quartets that are in the DNA of the players. The newly commissioned quartet by Kevin Puts (b1972) – which gives the album its title – is, like all this music, approachable and rewarding to spend time with. Over three tightly constructed movements, the writing reveals a generosity of spirit and warmth, the music reflecting the plight of a displaced Syrian people with ever-increasing urgency. The first movement is based on the ebb and flow of a rocking motif over a bass pedal, textures sifted then lightened and enriched. It wouldn’t be out of keeping to align the second movement, a scherzo in all but name, with Beethoven’s Grosse Fuge, the rhythmic pulse and dazzling energy bleeding into the linked ‘Dangerously fast’ third movement, where the prevailing mood of anxiety is punctured by tormented high-pitched cries on violins. Expectations for future performances look most promising.”
Adrian EdwardsRead the full review in the latest issue of Gramophone Magazine.
