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This quartet’s taste in repertoire runs toward post-Minimalist composers who work with melody — and an edge. The pop-style rhythmic fury of Judd Greenstein’s “Four on the Floor” is exhilarating. — New York Times, 13th December 2017 More…

Release Date: 13th Apr 2017
Catalogue No: DSL-92212
Label: Dorian Sono Luminus
Length: 68 minutes

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Shaw, C: Valencia

Work length5:57

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Jasper String Quartet
Recorded: 24-27 May 2016
Recording Venue: Sono Luminus Studios, Boyce, Virginia, United States

Mazzoli: Death Valley Junction

Work length8:52

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Jasper String Quartet
Recorded: 24-27 May 2016
Recording Venue: Sono Luminus Studios, Boyce, Virginia, United States

Gosfield: The Blue Horse Walks on the Horizon

Work length16:23

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Jasper String Quartet
Recorded: 24-27 May 2016
Recording Venue: Sono Luminus Studios, Boyce, Virginia, United States

Greenstein: Four on the Floor

Work length10:44

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Jasper String Quartet
Recorded: 24-27 May 2016
Recording Venue: Sono Luminus Studios, Boyce, Virginia, United States

Lang, D: almost all the time

Work length18:01

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Jasper String Quartet
Recorded: 24-27 May 2016
Recording Venue: Sono Luminus Studios, Boyce, Virginia, United States

Dennehy: Pushpulling

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Jasper String Quartet
Recorded: 24-27 May 2016
Recording Venue: Sono Luminus Studios, Boyce, Virginia, United States

Hearne, T: Law of Mosaics

Work length3:38

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Jasper String Quartet
Recorded: 24-27 May 2016
Recording Venue: Sono Luminus Studios, Boyce, Virginia, United States

I. Excerpts from the Middle of Something

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“sonically delightful and expressively compelling” —The Strad “powerful” —New York Times “The Jaspers... match their sounds perfectly, as if each swelling chord were coming out of a single, impossibly well-tuned organ, instead of four distinct instruments.” —New Haven Advocate

As the members of a string quartet, we are incredibly lucky. The four of us have spent the past decade playing together, learning to breathe and move as one. We’re honored to play in the most intimate settings and the top concert halls. Most importantly, the music we play is the best that there is. Seeking out new pieces to contribute to this conversation is as important, if not more so, as rediscovering the sublime human experience of a Beethoven quartet. The seven pieces on this album represent a collection of treasures we’ve discovered from this century. One of these pieces, Annie Gosﬁeld’s “The Blue Horse Walks on the Horizon” was written expressly for our quartet. The rest we unearthed as we sifted through the vibrant and varied landscape of music being created today. We sought to ﬁnd a set of pieces that were both enchanting on their own and together represent a cohesive aesthetic. From the immense technical challenges of Judd Greenstein’s “Four on the Floor”, the meditative contemplation of David Lang’s “almost all the time”, to the raw emotion and vivid imagery of Missy Mazzoli’s “Death Valley Junction”, these pieces represent an incredible diversity of sound and style. Yet they all reside comfortably in this wonderful tradition of string quartets, of which we are lucky enough to be a part.

—Jasper String Quartet

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New York Times 13th December 2017

This quartet’s taste in repertoire runs toward post-Minimalist composers who work with melody — and an edge. The pop-style rhythmic fury of Judd Greenstein’s “Four on the Floor” is exhilarating.

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