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MagnetDec 18, 2013It's a place Dessner has visited before, both inside and outside the National, and though he's earned plenty of concert-hall cred over the last few years, these incomparable Kronos recordings represent a huge leap. [No. 105, p.56]
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Nov 7, 2013Aheym is a moving work but it is also challenging: The quartet saw and slide with impeccable skill with Dessner as their captain.
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UncutNov 20, 2013Not an easy listen, but an accomplished one. [Dec 2013, p.67]
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Nov 14, 2013Aheym is a moving work but it is also challenging: The quartet saw and slide with impeccable skill with Dessner as their captain.
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Nov 7, 2013Opening with urgent triplets, it settles into an elegant braiding of interlaced lines that push the music forward in waves.
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Nov 8, 2013Dessner's mordant vision is uniquely his; these are real, meaty works, troubling and beautiful.
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Nov 7, 2013The Kronos Quartet carries a sense of adventurism akin to Dessner’s National pals, but their instrumentals work as more of a form of action than a single piece of the atmosphere, giving Aheym a tenser feel.
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Nov 21, 2013This collection of four works for string quartet is far from homely.
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Nov 18, 2013Recommended for those interested in classical-rock fusions.
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Nov 7, 2013In the Kronos Quartet’s 40-year career of melting faces chamber music style, it’s doubtful that Bryce Dessner: Aheym will ever rank as one of the group’s top recordings. It will, however, chronicle the rise the compositional talents of one Bryce Dessner.