Webern - Complete Works for String Quartet and String Trio

Webern began as a sort of post-Mahlerian late romantic, but he soon found his own voice: he expanded music's coloristic and harmonic language at the same time that he contracted its scale, writing pieces of extreme concentration and intensity. "Luminous dust" was the term one critic used to describe Webern's sound, the dots and wisps of color that make up, for example, his tiny Six Bagatelles (the longest of which is not even a minute and a half long). This disc of his complete works for string quartet and string trio also include three of those early pieces ("conservative" or not, they're gorgeous).