Overview
Some music is played; Russian music is confessed. The Russian Soul gathers Rachmaninoff's unfinished quartet fragments and Tchaikovsky's most sung slow movement into a single arc — from whispered prayer to full-throated lament.
Recorded in three winter nights at the St. Matthias Church in Berlin, the album keeps the breathing of the room inside the sound. No edits between movements, no second-guessing: four players, one arc, caught live to tape.
Recorded
St. Matthias Church, Berlin
Format
2×LP vinyl · CD · Digital
Length
48 min
Track Listing
- 1Rachmaninoff — Quartet Movement in B-flat major12:04
- 2Tchaikovsky — Andante cantabile, Op. 118:31
- 3Rachmaninoff — Quartet Movement in C minor9:47
- 4Tchaikovsky — Elegy in G minor11:12
- 5Shostakovich — Quartet No. 8, Largo (encore)6:58
“A recording that seems to slow time itself. Tessitura plays as if the music were being remembered, not performed.”The Chamber Review — Editor's Choice, March 2024
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