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AYMÉ KUNC (1877-1958): String Quartet No. 1 in G Minor (Gaudeamus Quartet), String Quartet No. 2 in A Minor (Alexander Brusilovsky, Patricia Reibaud [violins], Gennady Fredin [viola], Yan Garac [cello]). Although he won the Prix de Rome in 1902, Kunc is almost unknown because, in 1914, he left Paris and returned to his native Toulouse to head its Conservatory for the rest of his career, retiring in 1944. Yet, his two quartets postdate even that, being finished in 1946 and 1948, and they could have been written fifty years earlier, being completely in the school of Franck in terms of size (75 minutes for both), austerity and seriousness of mood (enlightened only by scherzi which themselves seem neurotically driven) as well as form. Collectors of late Romantic French chamber music will find much to enjoy here. Suoni e Colori SC 253262 (France) 03H056 $17.98 > (notes from http://www.recordsinternational.com/archive/RICatalogMar06.html)