Ligeti - String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2
Parker Quartet
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2010, Editor's Choice
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Grammy Awards, 53rd Awards (2010), Best Chamber Music Recording
Here is another relatively new quartet plunging into the recording fray with 'high-end' repertory and reaping the rewards of their apparent fearlessness...the recordings have the conviction...
Ligeti - String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2
Parker Quartet
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Awards:
-
Gramophone Magazine, April 2010, Editor's Choice
-
Grammy Awards, 53rd Awards (2010), Best Chamber Music Recording
Here is another relatively new quartet plunging into the recording fray with 'high-end' repertory and reaping the rewards of their apparent fearlessness...the recordings have the conviction...
About
György Ligeti’s choral and orchestral music hit the mainstream when it was featured in the soundtrack of 2001: A Space Odyssey, but his equally remarkable chamber works remain less well known.
While indebted to his compatriot Bartók for its folk-inflected passages, Ligeti’s First Quartet, subtitled Métamorphoses nocturnes, is nonetheless a work of striking originality.
The Second Quartet, composed around fifteen years later, abounds in contrasts between glacial stillness and manic activity, mechanistic pizzicatos and gentle oscillations.
His early Andante and Allegro is richly expressive and easily accessible.
“The Parker Quartet is equally persuasive at both extremes… in Ligeti’s two full-fledged quartets, these musicians brought considerable warmth and richness of tone to sweetly accented themes and gentle chordal writing, and unbridled textural brashness to the more volatile passages.” The New York Times
Contents and tracklist
- Parker Quartet
- Recorded: 1-3 October 2007
- Recording Venue: St. Anne's Church, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Parker Quartet
- Recorded: 1-3 October 2007
- Recording Venue: St. Anne's Church, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Parker Quartet
- Recorded: 1-3 October 2007
- Recording Venue: St. Anne's Church, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Awards and reviews
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Gramophone MagazineApril 2010Editor's Choice
April 2010
Here is another relatively new quartet plunging into the recording fray with 'high-end' repertory and reaping the rewards of their apparent fearlessness...the recordings have the conviction and character of single takes...The Parkers...make one eager to hear more contemporary repertoire from them
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