Sirena Quartett - Baroque on CD

Sirena Quartett - Baroque

With works by: Johann Christian Schickhardt (1680-1762) , Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (1689-1755) , Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)

Contributors: Dan Laurin, Mogens Rasmussen, Fredrik Bock, Leif Meyer, Sirena Quartet

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Schickhardt: Konzerte Nr. 1-3
+Boismortier: Konzerte Nr. 2 & 4; Sonate Nr. 6
+Telemann: Konzerte in E & F

Artists:: Sirena Quartett, Dan Laurin (Blockflöte), Mogens Rasmussen (Viola da gamba), Fredrik Bock (Gitarre & Theorbe), Leif Meyer (Cembalo & Orgel)
Label:: BIS
Year of recording ca.:: 2001
Item number:: 7884094
UPC/EAN:: 7318590012345
Release date:: 30.4.2003

Here is a taste of ensemble music at its most striking – from the heyday of the concerto grosso when the "solo" voice in a concerto could be provided by several players at the same time. Sirena is a quartet of recorder soloists who have now been playing together for a decade and have utterly perfected the art of making four disparate instruments appear to be a single musical source with an unusually large range of pitches and colours.

Their first disc, BIS-CD-1112: "Sitting Ducks", was enthusiastically received by the critics and astounded most people who heard it. (It was given a 5-star rating by the BBC Music Magazine.) The only reason it did not become a best-seller over night was that the programme was radically contemporary, with all of the composers still living and most of them still in their forties.

The present disc is a very different matter altogether in that the composers represent the most listener-friendly of Baroque composers: Telemann, Boismortier and Schickhardt. There is an added bonus in that the inimitable Dan Laurin - who taught the members of Sirena at the Carl Nielsen Academy – in some works features as the fifth wheel / recorder. Completing the picture is a continuo group of harpsichord, viola da gamba and lute. The enthusiasm of the approach paired with the tunefulness of the music should bring new life to jaded CD-players!

Tracklisting

Disk 1 von 1 (CD)

1 I. Allegro - Mogens Rasmussen
2 II. Adagio - Mogens Rasmussen
3 Iii. Vivace - Mogens Rasmussen
4 IV. Allegro - Mogens Rasmussen
5 I. Adagio - Dan Laurin
6 II. Allegro - Mogens Rasmussen
7 Iii. Allegro - Mogens Rasmussen
8 I. Largo E Staccato - Sirena
9 II. Allegro - Sirena
10 Iii. Adagio - Sirena
11 IV. Vivace - Sirena
12 I. Adagio - Sirena
13 II. Allegro - Sirena
14 Iii. Largo - Sirena
15 IV. Allegro - Sirena
16 I. Allegro - Mogens Rasmussen
17 II. Adagio - Mogens Rasmussen
18 Iii. Vivace - Mogens Rasmussen
19 IV. Allegro - Mogens Rasmussen
20 I. Adagio-Allegro - Sirena
21 II. Grave - Sirena
22 Iii. Allegro - Sirena
23 I. Allegro - Dan Laurin
24 II. Largo - Dan Laurin
25 Iii. Allegro - Dan Laurin
26 I. Andante - Sirena
27 II. Presto - Sirena
28 Iii. Adagio - Sirena
29 IV. Allegro - Sirena
30 I. Allegro - Mogens Rasmussen
31 II. Adagio - Mogens Rasmussen
32 Iii. Giga - Mogens Rasmussen
33 IV. Presto - Mogens Rasmussen

Sirena Quartett - Baroque on CD