Quatuor Psophos - Canto Di Speranza (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

These string quartets by Nicolas Bacri, who has written eleven quartets to this day, are at the heart of the composer’s thought process and illustrate perfectly his 2009 statement: "Why not see contemporary creation as the recreation of a modernity whose origins should be re-interpreted each time, re-played, looked at from the angle of an ‘original trauma’, a new outpouring from the traditional core, an aesthetic tension that is sometimes heightened and sometimes eased, that reinvents the nature of its rupture with tradition each time, whilst simultaneously building upon it?

From this point of view, Tippett, Shostakovich, Britten, Dutilleux, Weinberg, Simpson, Fricker, Mennin, Kalabis or Leighton, to cite but a few of the most brilliant composers of the second half of the 20th century who did not participate in the Darmstadt avant-garde, but who integrated into their language certain elements from the Viennese school, appear as major figures of contemporary modernity. It is in this vein that I place myself; it is in this vision of equilibrium within disruption and of disruption within equilibrium that I work; I resign myself to this permanent lack of tranquility".

TRACKLIST

01. Quatuor Psophos - Quatuor à cordes No. 9, Op. 140 "Canto di speranza"
02. Quatuor Psophos - Quatuor à cordes No. 8, Op. 112 "Omaggio a Haydn": I. Sonata all'ungarese
03. Quatuor Psophos - Quatuor à cordes No. 8, Op. 112 "Omaggio a Haydn": II. Notturno
04. Quatuor Psophos - Quatuor à cordes No. 8, Op. 112 "Omaggio a Haydn": III. Variations et fugue sur un Menuet de Haydn
05. Quatuor Psophos - Quatuor à cordes No. 7, Op. 101 "Variations Sérieuses"



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