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Features Disc of the day
Thomas Zehetmair - Ruth Killius
Manto and Madrigals
(ECM, 2011)
World's greatest violinist and his wife knock the brain sideways.
We here at MOJO oversee a broad church of music. At our heart, however, we are a rock magazine, still wary of poking our head into the vast knotty thicket of contemporary 'classical' music. This is a real shame, however, as the world of modern composition sometimes contains sounds, sensations, shocks and seizures that can rearrange the skull and sooth the senses of even the most knowledgeable of thrill-seeking crate-diggers.
In the same way that old jazz-heads would base their shopping decisions on which drummer and bassist were playing with that week's young man with a horn (Elvin Jones on drums? Take it to the till, Jill! Major Holley on bass? Give it the swerve, Merv [IMHO, of course]), the easiest way for relative novices like myself to navigate these dark, fathomless waters is to follow the players.
Austrian violinist Thomas Zehetmair (who looks eerily like a cross between William Hague and Herrick, from BBC3's Being Human) has been playing professionally since his mid teens in the late '70s and over the past thirty years has proven himself adept at most period styles but particularly a rough-edged, breathily expressive style (bruscamente, is it?) ideally suited to the 20th Century wonders he unearths.
Seven years ago he formed the Zehetmair String Quartet (violist and wife, Ruth Killius; second violinist Matthias Metzger; cellist Françoise Groben) a crack troop of tightly attuned chamber virtuosos who rehearse, perform and record entirely from memory. Zehetmair's recordings with the quartet are masterclasses in organic, intuitive interpretation his solo recordings more viscerally immediate.
For his latest release he's teamed up with wife Killius for what might be called a series of dark, sad, scordatura conversations between violin (him) and viola (her). Played loud in an empty office on a beautiful spring weekend while I was trying to finish my Black Keys feature, their slow, steady creep through Heinz Holliger's Drei Skizzen sounded like strange birds chattering in the creaking rigging of a doldrums-locked clipper ship. Proper magic. I promise that my next Disc of the Day will be nothing more edifying that Tiger B Smith's Tiger Rock but, right now, Zehetmair is the dude.
Andrew Male
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 09/05/2011
Further Listening
Robert Schumann - Zehetmair Quartett (ECM, 2003)
Scelsi: Natura Renovatur – Christoph Poppen (ECM, 2006)
Luigi Nono: Fragmente – Arditti Quartet (Montaigne, 2004)
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