Fine Arts Quartet - Four American Quartets
Fine Arts Quartet - Four American Quartets
Mit Werken von:
Ralph Evans (geb. 1953)
, Philip Glass (geb. 1937)
, George Antheil (1900-1959)
, Bernard Herrmann (1911-1975)
Mitwirkende:
Fine Arts Quartet
CD
CD (Compact Disc)
Herkömmliche CD, die mit allen CD-Playern und Computerlaufwerken, aber auch mit den meisten SACD- oder Multiplayern abspielbar ist.
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Evans: Streichquartett Nr. 1
+Glass: Streichquartett Nr. 2
+Antheil: Streichquartett Nr. 3
+Herrmann: Echoes für Streichquartett
- Künstler: Fine Arts Quartet
- Label: Naxos, DDD, 2007
- Bestellnummer: 5300939
- Erscheinungstermin: 4.7.2008
- Serie: Naxos American Classics
This recording gathers four string quartets by American composers who are widely divergent in style and manner, and who have made a distinctive and personal contribution to this endlessly re-inventive format. Ralph Evans is more familiar as a performer than composer. Finally completed in 1995, his First String Quartet is written in a non-derivative style, with tuneful melodies, lively counterpoint and piquant harmonies. Philip Glass has completed five mature quartets, his Second Quartet deriving from a theatrical presentation of Samuel Beckett's prose poem Company. The self-styled 'bad boy of American music', George Antheil wrote three string quartets, the third of which is permeated by a folk-music ambience. Best remembered for his film scores, Bernard Herrmann had not released a concert work for 25 years when he wrote Echoes. Its title applies to the thematic connections unobtrusively linking the ten sections of this one-movement piece.
- Tracklisting
- Mitwirkende
Disk 1 von 1 (CD)
- 1 Ralph Evans: String Quartet No. 1: I. Moderato
- 2 Ralph Evans: String Quartet No. 1: II. Andante espressivo
- 3 Ralph Evans: String Quartet No. 1: Iii. Allegro Scherzando
- 4 Philip Glass: String Quartet No. 2, "Company": I. quarter note = 96
- 5 Philip Glass: String Quartet No. 2, "Company": II. quarter note = 160
- 6 Philip Glass: String Quartet No. 2, "company": Iii. Quarter Note = 96
- 7 Philip Glass: String Quartet No. 2, "Company": IV. quarter note = 160
- 8 George Antheil: String Quartet No. 3: I. Allegretto
- 9 George Antheil: String Quartet No. 3: II. Largo
- 10 George Antheil: String Quartet No. 3: Iii. Quasi Presto (Scherzo)
- 11 George Antheil: String Quartet No. 3: IV. Allegro giocoso
- 12 Bernard Herrmann: Echoes