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THE SIX STRING QUINTETS 31
We experienced yet again this zenith
of musical emotion when the complete
Quintets by the Talich Quartet were
released in the late 1990s. For the
first time, these works - which in
reality were performed in concert
relatively infrequently and were not
widely recorded - became accessible
in all of their emotional power and
stunning beauty; highly complex yet
immediately gripping.