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Infinite Voyage: Schoenberg, Hindemith, Berg, Chausson
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Label: Alpha
Cat No: ALPHA1000
Barcode: 3701624510001
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 8th September 2023
the players’ nuances and range of colours are still formidable, and the recording makes each pizzicato note something you feel in your stomach. They are a class act, and will be missed.
This wonderful parting gift from the quartet features warm lustrous performances of Schoenberg’s Second Quartet (with soprano Barbara Hannigan) and Berg’s opus 3, plus two beautifully rendered rarities by Hindemith and Chausson ... Alban Berg’s Op 3 Quartet, completed in 1910, two years after his teacher Schoenberg’s Second but not published until 10 years later, makes a logical companion piece, and the Emersons give both works warm, lustrous performances, more generous than many of their earlier, more objective recordings. Barbara Hannigan is the soprano in the Schoenberg, her elegance and cool, precise shaping of every phrase perfectly tailored to the keenly expressive vocal line... 
It is in major works by Berg and Schoenberg that the Emerson Quartet come to the fore, with recordings of admirable clarity in the most convoluted of textures and with all their special ability to project the full richness and seriousness of the musical material. ... no singer in [Schoenberg’s] Op 10 can surpass Barbara Hannigan in anatomising its searing mix of primitive and spiritually aspiring states of mind, matched to the hilt by the Emerson’s close-knit delineation of the massed shards of motivic elements the music throws out in its quest for transcendence. 
This weekend, the quartet will play its last concerts ever, at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. The group, which formed in 1976, has recorded more than forty albums, including all sixteen Beethoven quartets. (Its swan song, “Infinite Voyage,” came out in September.) In a field accustomed to half-full auditoriums, their concerts sell out. It’s like when One Direction broke up – except that One Direction never won a Grammy, and the Emersons have nine.
Their final recording, “Infinite Voyage,” with bracing yet seductive works by Schoenberg, Hindemith, Berg and Chausson, was released last month, featuring Hannigan.
