Kurtag - Complete String Quartets
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Label: Atma Classique
Cat No: ACD22705
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 23rd September 2016
Contents
Works
Arioso: Hommage a Walter Levin 85, in Alban Bergs ManierAus der Ferne III, for string quartet
Aus der Ferne V for string quartet
Hommage a Jacob Obrecht
Hommage a Mihaly Andras (12 Microludes for string quartet)
Moments musicaux (6), op.44
Officium breve in memoriam Andreae Szervansky, op.28
String Quartet, op.1
Artists
Quatuor MolinariWorks
Arioso: Hommage a Walter Levin 85, in Alban Bergs ManierAus der Ferne III, for string quartet
Aus der Ferne V for string quartet
Hommage a Jacob Obrecht
Hommage a Mihaly Andras (12 Microludes for string quartet)
Moments musicaux (6), op.44
Officium breve in memoriam Andreae Szervansky, op.28
String Quartet, op.1
Artists
Quatuor MolinariAbout
Strongly influenced by the Vienna school (Webern and Schoenberg), and by Pierre Boulez’s Domaine musical concerts, Kurtág wrote his first string quartet in 1959, and with it launched his career as a composer. It was followed by a series of works referencing composers, performers, and friends he admired. Olga Ranzenhofer, first violinist with the Molinari Quartet says, "Kurtág’s music is always very personal, immediately recognizable, and stamped with characteristic depth and expression."
Recipient of eighteen Opus Prizes awarded by the Quebec Music Council to recognize musical excellence on the Quebec concert stage, the Molinari Quartet is an "essential" and "prodigious" ensemble, "Canada’s answer to the Kronos or Arditti Quartet".
Reviews
This disc makes a slender and massively significant collection – 43 pieces, the longest of which lasts barely four minutes; most are considerably shorter. Though groups such as the Keller and Arditti quartets have extensively recorded these pieces, there appears to have been just one complete survey of Kurtág’s quartets before – by the Athena Quartet on a Neos disc released five years ago – but now not easily obtainable, in the UK at least. That gives the Montreal-based Quatuor Molinari the field to themselves, and in general they make the most of it. ... They can be rather forthright and insistent, sometimes almost relentless, but they never leave any doubt about the seriousness and profundity of this music, nor about its intrinsic greatness. Andrew ClementsError on this page? Let us know here
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