Times of Unrest: String Quartet Project | Danacord DACOCD945

Times of Unrest: String Quartet Project

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Label: Danacord

Cat No: DACOCD945

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 4th November 2022

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About

In 2018, Aksel Nielsen, cellist and a chairman of the Chamber music society BRAGE inRanders, started a dialogue with composer Hanne Tofte Jespersen about a new string quartet. He wished to commission her to write a quartet for BRAGE. They both liked the idea of the new work to be composed for a historical theme which would also be relevant for a present audience, including youth. They soon agreed on a context of a late Haydn quartet from the 1790s and Benjamin Britten's First String Quartet from 1941. BRAGE invited Nordic String Quartet to take up the task and involved four other chamber music societies in the project.

Neither Aksel nor Hanne had imagined how relevant it would prove to call the project TIMES OF UNREST. She completed her quartet in the spring of 2020, at the beginning of Covid-19 pandemic causing lockdown of any cultural events.

The first performances in November 2020 took place just before the second coronavirus lockdown. Prior to concerts, workshops were organised with high school music students and their teachers, allowing them to meet the composer and one of the musicians.

By the time of recording and release of this album, there is once more a most unfortunate war on the European continent, not to mention the climate related Times of Unrest all over the good Planet Earth. The musical works of this project express both unrest, threat, hope and even vision of peace.

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