The award winning Cuarteto Quiroga, one of the boldest, most personal and individual quartet sounds of Europe’s newest string quartet generation, presents this highly profiled CD program which features a musical trip in four stages, to state and claim the aesthetical recuperation for performance practice of the very nature that constitutes string quartet as musical genre: Challenge. These four works are the Statement of three composers confronted with the Challenge of their time.
The op.20 nr 2 was one of Haydn’s most interesting statements as a response to the challenge of integrating the old forms into a new style of music writing, to configure a new stylistic horizon.
Webern’s Langsamer Satz, the statement of a young composer facing the challenge of a musical language about to collapse. Here Webern is the keystone that leads into a fascinating solution, turn of a new era. His own Op.5 represents the Statement of what he himself saw later as the natural way of writing new music. Poetry and Culture of Composition combined in the most expressive minutes of quartet music ever written.
And finally, Giovanni Sollima, the voice that has stated a possible, brilliantly eclectic way of approaching the challenge of composition for a generation who cannot escape the mediatic influence of popular music.
Four musical Statements in the Statement of a quartet for our time who gives us in this first-recording a sharp, individual and bold reading of String Quartet as a cultural phenomenon: testimony of our european culture, challenge of our future ways.
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Additional information
| Label | |
|---|---|
| SKU | COBRA0035 |
| Qualities | |
| Channels | 2ch Stereo, 5 Channel Surround Sound, 2ch Stereo & 5ch Surround |
| Artists | |
| Composers | |
| Genres | |
| Digital Converters | dCS 904 AD / 954 DA |
| Mastering Engineer | Tom Peeters |
| Mastering Equipment | KEF Reference series 107 |
| Microphones | B&K 4003, modified by Rens Heijnis |
| Mixing Board | Rens Heijnis custom made |
| Instruments | |
| Original Recording Format | |
| Producer | Tom Peeters |
| Recording Engineer | Tom Peeters |
| Recording location | Reswoude, The Netherlands |
| Recording Software | Pyramix |
| Recording Type & Bit Rate | DSD64 |
| Release Date | October 16, 2015 |
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Positive Feedback
I’ve found myself regularly returning to recordings by the Spanish string quartet, Cuarteto Quiroga. Their performances are refined, beautifully played, nuanced in interpretation, and played with total conviction… In Statements, spanning over 200 years, Cuarteto Quiroga explores what it means to write for a string quartet… This is excellent programming! An educational journey combined with outstanding music. And beautifully performed by Cuarteto Quiroga who fill the album with stylish energy.
The beauty of performance is enhanced by the superb recording made by Tom Peeters, producer and recording engineer for Cobra Records. As with so many of Tom’s excellent recordings, we have a very happy combination of superb acoustic venue (the Westvest90 Church, Schiedam, The Netherlands) and masterful recording skills that both support and enhance the performance. Just gorgeous recordings.
Klassik.com (may 2016)
“The small selection of outstanding, under the slogan, Statements’ subsumed quartets not only their respective point values ??are discussed in the well over 250 years constantly evolving discipline, but also made immense demands on the interpretive skills.
Maximum range of expression, balance of individual voices, articulatory precision and uncommon transparency prove time outlasting paradigms that brought the genre already 1810, purest, most perfect presentation ‘(AmZ).”
“Thus, it is only logical to juxtapose different stations of a class story that can be tied together in their advanced aspirations. And the Cuarteto Quiroga can prove how confident it is understood to move between musical styles.”
El Cultural (El Mundo)
A record adventure to be acclaimed. A truly agile, refreshing and transparent interpretation: just as it should be.
Expansión
Welcome to the trenches: the splendid Cuarteto Quiroga shows off his versatility and sonic richness. Magnificent and exiting the consecutive listening of Haydn and Webern. A debut CD to be praised and saluted in the battlefield of discography.
Babelia (El País)
Here you have performances of the highest possible level.
Ritmo (Spain)
The Cuarteto Quiroga has just recorded a beautiful and exellent CD. A truly successful combination of elegance and good taste.
De Volkskrant
Few string quartets manage to achieve such a sophisticated, meticulous sound as the Cuarteto Quiroga on their debut CD (…) which can be listened to as an aesthetic manifesto. (…) One could not wish anything more in terms of unity and insight into performance.
Klassieke Zaken
It is virtually unimaginable how easily the tones flow from the hands of the Cuarteto Quiroga (…) we just hear a string quartet playing of a rarley heard beauty.
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