George Rochberg: String Quartets Nos. 3 - 6 - New World: NW80551 - 2 CDs or download

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Catalogue No: NW80551
Label: New World
Length: 2 hours 16 minutes

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Rochberg: String Quartet No. 3

Work length47:31

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Mark Sokol, Andrew Jennings, John Kochanowski, Norman Fischer
Concord String Quartet

Part A (Introduzione: Fantasia & March)

Track length9:56

$1.50

$2.10

Part B (Variations)

Track length15:55

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Part C (March & Finale: Scherzos and Serenades)

Track length21:40

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Rochberg: String Quartet No. 4

Work length27:39

$5.00

$7.00

Mark Sokol, Andrew Jennings, John Kochanowski, Norman Fischer
Concord String Quartet

I. Fantasia (Ironica)

Track length4:31

$1.00

$1.40

II. Fuga

Track length8:37

$1.50

$2.10

III. Serenade

Track length8:17

$1.50

$2.10

IV. Fantasia (Serioso)

Track length6:14

$1.00

$1.40

Rochberg: String Quartet No. 5

Work length26:24

$5.50

$7.70

Mark Sokol, Andrew Jennings, John Kochanowski, Norman Fischer
Concord String Quartet

I. Molto allegro marziale

Track length6:24

$1.00

$1.40

II. Mesto

Track length7:00

$1.50

$2.10

III. Scherzo

Track length2:25

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$1.40

IV. Serenade

Track length4:47

$1.00

$1.40

V. Rondo-Finale

Track length5:48

$1.00

$1.40

Rochberg: String Quartet No. 6

Work length34:45

$6.50

$9.10

Mark Sokol, Andrew Jennings, John Kochanowski, Norman Fischer
Concord String Quartet

I. Fantasia

Track length4:26

$1.00

$1.40

II. Scherzo-Humoresque

Track length6:34

$1.00

$1.40

III. Variations (on Pachelbel Canon)

Track length8:18

$1.50

$2.10

IV. Serenade

Track length2:45

$1.00

$1.40

V. Introduction and Finale

Track length12:42

$2.00

$2.80

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Here at last is the long-awaited CD premiere of the works that were hailed as masterpieces at their New York premiere in 1979-the "Concord" Quartets of George Rochberg. These works undoubtedly represent one of the peaks of American chamber music of the last half of this century. This release will fill a major lacuna in the CD discography.

A highly respected practitioner of serialism, George Rochberg (b. 1918) underwent a major spiritual crisis in the early 1960s after the death of his son. The Third through Sixth quartets were the result of his struggle to find a language that could bear the weight of his sorrow and point to transcendence. Furthermore, it was a language that was immediately communicable to listeners. Although he abandoned serialism, his new style embraced both tonality and atonality, dramatically reinterpreting the notion of stylistic uniformity that had been a hallmark of the Western aesthetic since antiquity.

In these works, Rochberg boldly challenged the music world's status quo, and his challenge has resonated through the ensuing decades, shifting the profile of modern music at the century's close into a shape that thirty years ago would have been unthinkable. Definitive performances by the works' dedicatees, the Concord Quartet, the preeminent new music advocates of their day.

George Rochberg: String Quartets Nos. 3 - 6

2 CDs

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