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Balanescu Quartet - Maria T (2005)

Posted By: tirexiss
Date: 29 Aug 2022 09:25:14
Balanescu Quartet - Maria T (2005)

Balanescu Quartet - Maria T (2005)
EAC | FLAC (tracks+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 77:35 | 412 MB
Genre: Chamber Music, Contemporary | Label: Mute | Catalog: 692862

Widely known for his performances of music by Michael Nyman and Gavin Bryars, Alexander Balanescu is gradually achieving recognition for his own compositions, particularly those celebrating the culture of his native Romania. Maria T is a cycle of pieces based on the songs of Maria Tanase, a popular Romanian singer of the 1940s and '50s whose music Balanescu reinterprets for his own ensemble, the Balanescu String Quartet, and percussionist Steve Arguelles. There are some aspects of this work that may seem calculated to appeal to a crossover audience: the music is occasionally spiced with energetic rock and world beat rhythms to draw in pop fans, but the underlying flavor is a mix of soft classical and minimalist styles which, early on, seem bland and uninspired.
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Balanescu Quartet - Michael Nyman: Chamber Music Vol.II: String Quartets 1-3 (2012)

Posted By: Designol
Date: 22 Aug 2022 10:51:42
Balanescu Quartet - Michael Nyman: Chamber Music Vol.II: String Quartets 1-3 (2012)

Balanescu Quartet - Michael Nyman: Chamber Music Vol.II: String Quartets 1-3 (2012)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 375 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 176 Mb | Scans included
Label: Michael Nyman Records | # MNRCD124 | Time: 01:03:13
Genre: Classical, Minimalism, Chamber Music

Michael Nyman's three String Quartets were not conceived as a series, as they owe their origins to three very different sets of circumstances. However when the composer heard them together on the 1991 Argo recording featuring the Balanescu Quartet reissued here, he realized that the works had an unintentional but unmistakable consistency of compositional approach. Each work is built around the principle of conflict - not necessarily conflict between the instruments, as is the traditional view of the quartet medium, but conflict between sets of musical materials that appear to be at odds with each other. In the first, the conflict is between two 'found' musical objects, separated both by their cultural origins and by a distance of around 300 years. The conflict in the second is between Indian and European musical styles, while the third's comes from the process of adapting an earlier choral work into a string quartet, interspersing the original with Romanian folk music fragments.
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