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Beethoven & Hillborg: Chamber Works

Calder Quartet

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Beethoven & Hillborg: Chamber Works is the first album on the Pentatone label from the Calder Quartet.  This recording, made at Zipper Hall at the Colburn School in Los Angeles features Jonathan Moerschel playing on a viola made by Gasparo da Salo in 1590 that is known as the “ex-Adam”. It is on generous loan from the Stradivari Society in Chicago.

Pentatone tells us “Hailed as one of the most exciting classical music groups of the United States, the Calder Quartet invites you on a journey from early to late Beethoven, passing through an exciting contemporary piece by Swedish composer Anders Hillborg along the way.

Beethoven’s Op. 131 string quartet, that concludes this album, is already a great adventure in its own right, with its seven movements full of fugal writing, harmonic explorations, variations and passages filled with operatic drama. Hearing this late masterpiece together with the much more classical, but equally lively, Op. 18 no. 3 quartet opens our ears to the exceptional richness of Beethoven’s musical universe.

Hillborg’s Kongsgaard Variations reveals unexpected sonic relationships to Beethoven’s variation technique, underlining the modernity of the older composer. This all leads to a program that is lively, layered and ravishingly beautiful.”

Tracklist

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1.
Beethoven - String Quartet in D major op. 18 no. 3 - Allegro
08:18
2.
Beethoven - String Quartet in D major op. 18 no. 3 - Andante con moto
08:08
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Beethoven - String Quartet in D major op. 18 no. 3 - Allegro
02:57
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Beethoven - String Quartet in D major op. 18 no. 3 - Presto
07:02
5.
Hillborg - Kongsgaard Variations
14:07
6.
Beethoven - String Quartet in C-sharp minor op. 131 - Adagio
06:14
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Beethoven - String Quartet in C-sharp minor op. 131 - Allegro molto vivace
03:14
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Beethoven - String Quartet in C-sharp minor op. 131 - Allegro moderato
00:47
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Beethoven - String Quartet in C-sharp minor op. 131 - Andante
13:20
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Beethoven - String Quartet in C-sharp minor op. 131 - Presto
05:49
11.
Beethoven - String Quartet in C-sharp minor op. 131 - Adagio
02:03
12.
Beethoven - String Quartet in C-sharp minor op. 131 - Allegro
07:04

Total time: 01:19:03

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Karel Bruggeman

Recording Engineer

Sergey Parfenov

Recording Location

Zipper Hall at the Colburn School, Los Angeles on May 22-25, 2018

Recording Type & Bit Rate

DSD 64

Release DateApril 19, 2019

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