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Mister Moods said... BRAND NEW MOODS presents: - Kronos Quartert "Peteris Vasks: Sting Quartet No. 4" Mmeditative moments will remind listeners of Arvo Pärt; his disruptive passages bring Shostakovitch to mind. But the textures, so beautifully brought out by the great Kronos Quartet, are uniquely Vasks' and when, at the work's conclusion, after a return to the folk melody of the first movement, the strings fly up to their highest registers and simply disappear into the ethos, the effect is magi...

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