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You wouldn't be aware of it on this CD, but Sculthorpe always manages to get it right, whether he's writing Japanese or Aboriginal music, experimental Modernism or old-fashioned, nostalgic salon pieces. If you want to explore that I'd recommend one of the piano compilations, if you're interested in Sculthorpe for fashionable "eco-warrior" reasons (not that I'm criticizing) you'll go for his orchestral compositions. If, on the other hand, you want a consistent and highly distinctive body of work without programmatic associations, look to the string quartets. String quartets always sound like string quartets, very few composers manage to sound original, but Sculthorpe's are uniquely his own. And if you've always wondered what it would mean for music in the Western tradition to be Australian, this is where to find out.
If you're wondering what a mezzo is doing in a string quartet, von Otter only turns up in a couple of movements, but it's quite something when she does. This disc isn't really for her fans, but it's a great voice being put to very good use. It's the Brodsky's CD, and they play with the imagination required. Much as I love the Kronos Quartet, I'm glad they haven't yet done Sculthorpe, they'd turn him into something he doesn't need to be. These performances are exactly right.
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Very quietly, somewhere in Tasmania, someone's been reinventing the string quartet
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