Statements

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Statements

Label Cobra Records

Artists Cuarteto Quiroga

€23,99 EUR

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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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhPQ6GPa6Ns

Tracklist

Total time: 53:22

1. Divertimento a quattro - Moderato

07:00

2. Divertimento a quattro - Capriccio - Adagio

05:37

3. Divertimento a quattro - Menuet - Allegretto

03:22

4. Divertimento a quattro - Fuga a 4 tro soggetti

04:01

5. Langsamer Satz

11:39

6. Funf Satze fur Streichquartett Op: 5 - Heftig bewegt

02:37

7. Funf Satze fur Streichquartett Op: 5 - Sehr langsam

02:53

8. Funf Satze fur Streichquartett Op: 5 - Sehr bewegt

00:47

9. Funf Satze fur Streichquartett Op: 5 - Sehr langsam

01:59

10. Funf Satze fur Streichquartett Op: 5 - In zarter Bewegung

03:43

11. Sonnets et Rondeaux - I Sonnet

01:12

12. Sonnets et Rondeaux - II Rondeau, Allegro

02:05

13. Sonnets et Rondeaux - III Sonnet, Lento

01:59

14. Sonnets et Rondeaux - IV Rondeau, Allegro

01:41

15. Sonnets et Rondeaux - V Sonnet

01:09

16. Sonnets et Rondeaux - VI Rondeau, Allegro

01:38

Additional Information

Label

Cobra Records

SKU

COBRA0035

Qualities

FLAC 96 kHz, FLAC 192 kHz, DSD 64

Channels

2ch Stereo, 5ch Surround, 2ch Stereo & 5ch Surround

Artists

Cuarteto Quiroga

Composers

Haydn, Webern, Sollima

Genres

Classical

Original Recording Format

DSD 64

Instruments

String quartet

Release Date

October 16, 2015

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Not Available on SACD

Reviews

Positive Feedback

Rushton Paul

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.

Source: positive-feedback.com

Klassik.com (may 2016)

Jasemin Khaleli

"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."

Source: magazin.klassik.com

El Cultural (El Mundo)

El Cultural (El Mundo)

A record adventure to be acclaimed. A truly agile, refreshing and transparent interpretation: just as it should be.

Expansión

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)

Babelia (El País)

Here you have performances of the highest possible level.

Ritmo (Spain)

Ritmo (Spain)

The Cuarteto Quiroga has just recorded a beautiful and exellent CD. A truly successful combination of elegance and good taste.

De Volkskrant

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

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.

Statements

Statements

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