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By way of introduction
Hello. I've been lurking here for several days, and intended to wait a
bit longer before posting, but I couldn't stand it anymore. I
absolutely love Juliet Letters. My dad hauled it out one day after it
had been in storage for some time. My mother is not a big fan of Elvis
Costello's voice, so we hadn't heard much of it, but I fell in love with
it. I listened to it over and over for weeks. I have the cd on
permanent loan because I love it so much. I don't think it's really a
dialogue between a countess and her lover though, I think it's really
just a set of letters that are not neccisarily related to eachother. It
definately does qualify as a concept album though, because you have to
understand it as a whole.
I absolutely love Elvis' voice and his writing, and being a violin
player, I love the sound of the brodskys and the range of styles they
have as a string quartet.
You seem like really nice people. I'm so excited to get to know you-all
and discuss good music.
Bethany
Arthur Dent wrote:
> One album that i didn't see mentioned is the brilliant "The Juliet
> Letters" by Elvis Costello and the Brodsky Quartet. The quartet, at
> the time of the recording (1992ish) were a group of thirty-somethings
> who had been playing together as a quartet for over 20 years. They
> discovered that Elvis was a fan of their work (as they were of his)
> and put together this album. It's the fictional account of a written
> dialogue between a Russian countess, Juliet, and her dead
> lover.Musically, it is very beautiful. The quartet does a great job
> of setting the tone of each song (letter), while Elvis is allowed to
> display his full range of emotions, from mocking to angry to very
> sad. Really worth listening to.ken
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