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Escher String Quartet - Mendelssohn: String Quartets Nos. 2 & 3 (2015)

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Escher String Quartet - Mendelssohn: String Quartets Nos. 2 & 3 (2015)

Escher String Quartet - Mendelssohn: String Quartets Nos. 2 & 3 (2015)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers + Digital Booklet | 71:51 | 386 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: BIS | Catalog: BIS-SACD-1990

In 1827, when writing his Quartet in A minor, Op.13, the 18-year-old Felix Mendelssohn was especially interested in Beethovens late quartets at a time when these works were generally written off as confused fantasies of a deaf musician. Mendelssohn's debt to Beethoven is evident in the important role of polyphonic techniques, particularly in the focus on cyclical connections between movements. Ten years on, Mendelssohn composed the three quartets, Op. 44, the D major quartet that closes the present disc the last of these to be completed; on publication, however, Mendelssohn placed it first in the set. Besides the seven complete quartets, Mendelssohn also wrote four individual string quartet movements. These were gathered together and published posthumously as op. 81, and on this second volume of their complete Mendelssohn cycle the Escher Quartet perform two of these pieces, both conceived in August 1847, shortly before the composers death.

Escher String Quartet, Paulina Swierczek, Miranda Cuckson & Jacob Greenberg - Anthony Cheung: All Roads (2022)

Posted By: delpotro
Escher String Quartet, Paulina Swierczek, Miranda Cuckson & Jacob Greenberg - Anthony Cheung: All Roads (2022)

Escher String Quartet, Paulina Swierczek, Miranda Cuckson & Jacob Greenberg - Anthony Cheung: All Roads (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 270 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 168 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:09:59
Classical | Label: New Focus Recordings

Composer Anthony Cheung releases All Roads, a follow up to FCR215 Cycles and Arrows. Featuring performances by the Escher Quartet, violinist Miranda Cuckson, soprano Paulina Swierczek, and pianists Jacob Greenberg, Gilles Vonsattel, and Cheung himself, All Roads encapsulates Cheung's penchant for drawing on broad sources of inspiration and filtering them through an incisive and discriminating compositional process to produce substantial, structurally airtight works.

Escher String Quartet - Barber & Ives: String Quartets (2021)

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Escher String Quartet - Barber & Ives: String Quartets (2021)

Escher String Quartet - Barber & Ives: String Quartets (2021)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 350 Mb | Total time: 74:15 | Scans included
Classical | Label: BIS | # BIS-SACD-2360 | Recorded: 2019

Previous releases from the New York-based Escher Quartet include an acclaimed set of Mendelsohn’s six string quartets as well as an album with works by Dvořák, Tchaikovsky and Borodin. For their latest offering the members have looked closer to home, however, choosing to combine the quartets by Samuel Barber and Charles Ives. The disc opens with Barber’s String Quartet in B minor, containing the music for which the composer remains best-known: the second movement which he two years later expanded into Adagio for Strings. Recognizing its potential already while composing it, Barber described the piece as ‘a knock-out’ – which made it all the more difficult to come up with a third movement worthy to follow it.

Escher String Quartet - Barber & Ives: String Quartets (2021)

Posted By: delpotro
Escher String Quartet - Barber & Ives: String Quartets (2021)

Escher String Quartet - Barber & Ives: String Quartets (2021)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 334 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 173 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:13:58
Classical | Label: BIS

Previous releases from the New York-based Escher Quartet include an acclaimed set of Mendelsohn’s six string quartets as well as an album with works by Dvořák, Tchaikovsky and Borodin. For their latest offering the members have looked closer to home, however, choosing to combine the quartets by Samuel Barber and Charles Ives. The disc opens with Barber’s String Quartet in B minor, containing the music for which the composer remains best-known: the second movement which he two years later expanded into Adagio for Strings.