Mátyás Seiber: String Quartets Nos 1–3 Contemporary brought together on a single

brought together on a single recording for the first time

his playing enhanced by the close but never airless sound

in the beginning

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It's easy to get so wrapped up in the ravishing delights of Jackson's writing that you forget the astonishing quality of these performances

Mátyás Seiber: String Quartets Nos 1–3 Contemporary brought together on a singleSUMMARY TRACK LISTING REVIEWS INFO Mtys Seibers three string quartets span his career, from the astonishingly assured student essay of the first composed in 1924 at the age of just eighteen to the mature synthesis of his third and final Quartetto Lirico. Seibers work was nourished by several of the twentieth centurys most important stylistic trends, from jazz and serialism to the folk music of his native Hungary. He was also, like many of the mid