Jürg Frey: Third String Quartet CD review – an audaciously fragile performance

Bozzini Quartet
(Edition Wandelweiser Records) Swiss composer Jürg Frey said recently that all good music should be felt in some part of the body, and that his music is intended to be felt just inside of the ear drum. It’s a neat image from the master of calm instrumental textures – a Wandelweiser group composer who explores silence as much as sound and writes egoless music that feels as though it’s always existed. Montreal’s Bozzini Quartet gave a virtuosically stil