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Elliott Carter: Chamber Music [Arditti String Quartet] (1998)
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Elliott Carter: Chamber Music [Arditti String Quartet] (1998)
Arditti Quartet Edition, Vol. 33
Genre: Modern Classical | 1 CD | MP3 @ 320 kbps | No Scans | 121 MB (100 Mb + 74 Mb RARs)
Publisher: Auvidis / Montaigne | Year: 1998
Arditti Quartet Edition, Vol. 33
Genre: Modern Classical | 1 CD | MP3 @ 320 kbps | No Scans | 121 MB (100 Mb + 74 Mb RARs)
Publisher: Auvidis / Montaigne | Year: 1998
In his 90th year, Elliott Carter is doing something few nonagenarians ever do: he's premiering a striking new string quartet, his fifth. And it's an awe-inspiring piece. The Arditti String Quartet takes up the short phrases that run with and then against one another with sureness, plucking and scraping and making their bows sing. They then delve into each of the five interludes that interrogate the quartet's six sections and play through the disparate splinters of tone and flushes of midrange color as if they were perfectly logical developments. Which they're not. Carter has again brilliantly scripted a chatter of stringed voices–à la the second quartet–that converse quickly, sometimes mournfully, but never straightforwardly. This complexity of conversation is a constant for Carter, coming sharply to light in "90+" and then in Rohan de Saram and Ursula Oppens's heaving read of the 1948 Sonata for Cello and Piano, as well as in virtually all these pieces. This is a monumental recording, extending the documented work of a lamentably underappreciated American composer.Andrew Bartlett
Performers:
Arditti String Quartet
Ursula Oppens (piano)
Tracklist:
1-12. 5th String Quartet (1994-95) 20:00
1 Introduction 1:24
2 Giocoso 2:29
3 Interlude I 1:11
4 Lento espressivo 1:45
5 Interlude II 1:18
6 Presto scorrevole 1:07
7 Interlude III 1:31
8 Allegro energico 2:00
9 Interlude IV 1:58
10 Adagio sereno 2:29
11 Interlude V 1:25
12 Capriccioso 1:23
Arditti String Quartet
13. 90+ pour piano (1994) 5:35
Ursula Oppens (piano)
14-17. Sonata pour violoncelle et piano (1948) 21:06
14 Moderato 5:10
15 Vivace, molto leggiero 4:38
16 Adagio 5:40
17 Allegro 5:38
Ursula Oppens (piano)
Rohan de Saram (cello)
18. Figment: pour violoncelle seul (1994) 5:04
Rohan de Saram (cello)
19. Duo: pour violon et piano (1973-74) 19:09
Irvine Arditti (violin)
Ursula Oppens (piano)
20. Fragment: pour quatuor à cordes (1994) 4:02
Arditti String Quartet