Christian Wolff - 3 String Quartets
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Label: New World Records
Cat No: NW80830
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 10th December 2021
Contents
Works
For 2 violinists, violist, and cellistOut of Kilter (String Quartet 5)
String Quartet Exercises out of Songs
Artists
Quatuor BozziniWorks
For 2 violinists, violist, and cellistOut of Kilter (String Quartet 5)
String Quartet Exercises out of Songs
Artists
Quatuor BozziniAbout
He created music in which the activities of the performers – timing, cueing, assembling and selecting materials – were foregrounded. Although to some extent these activities were always a part of classical music, Wolff opened them up for creative decision-making by the musicians themselves. Charles Ives began to develop a different conception with (among other works) his String Quartet no.2 (1913). It portrays four individuals who come together to have a discussion that turns into an argument (presumably over politics) and then its transcendental resolution in the mountains.
With Ives and then others from the American Experimental Tradition (including John Cage), chamber music starts to become a place where differences are unleashed.
Given his exploration of the ontology of people making music together, the string quartet, laden as it is with the tradition of unity, might not at first seem to be an obvious fit to Wolff's sensibilities. But his quartet music stems as much from Ives and Cage as from the European art music tradition.
The four characters of Ives become four people playing music.
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