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Prism III - Beethoven, Bartok, Bach

Danish String Quartet

Prism III - Beethoven, Bartok, Bach
The Danish String Quartet’s Prism series is building into an exceptionally rewarding venture…The remarkable precision of the Danish is apparent throughout, moving as one organism whether in...

Prism III - Beethoven, Bartok, Bach

Danish String Quartet

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The Danish String Quartet’s Prism series is building into an exceptionally rewarding venture…The remarkable precision of the Danish is apparent throughout, moving as one organism whether in...

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The third volume of the Danish String Quartet's ongoing Prism series, which shows how the radiance of Bach's fugues is refracted through Beethoven's quartets to illuminate the work of later composers. "Beethoven had taken a fundamentally linear development from Bach," the Danes note, "and exploded everything into myriads of different colours, directions and opportunities much in the same way as a prism splits a beam of light." Here the quartet follow the beam from Johann Sebastian Bach's Fugue in c-sharp minor through Ludwig van Beethoven's String Quartet no.14 to Bela Bartok's String Quartet No.1. "A revelatory connected soundscape in which Beethoven's introspection feels more unsettling than usual." - BBC Music Magazine on Prism II "It's natural music-making....." - Gramophone Magazine on Prism II

Contents and tracklist

1. Adagio ma non troppo e molto espressivo
Track length8:08
2. Allegro molto vivace
Track length3:00
3. Allegro moderato - Adagio
Track length0:50
4. Andante ma non troppo e molto cantabile - Allegretto
Track length14:47
5. Presto
Track length5:15
6. Adagio quasi un poco andante
Track length2:28
7. Allegro
Track length6:38
1. Lento
Track length10:23
2. Allegretto
Track length8:37
3a. Introduzione. Allegro
Track length1:42
3b. Allegro vivace
Track length10:19
Fugue in C-Sharp Minor, BWV 849 (Arr. Förster for Strings)
Track length4:15

Awards and reviews

June 2021

The Danish String Quartet’s Prism series is building into an exceptionally rewarding venture…The remarkable precision of the Danish is apparent throughout, moving as one organism whether in the wilder moments of Bartók’s final movement or the slowmoving counterpoint that opens the Beethoven.

May 2021

In the DSQ’s company, I’ll be content to go round in contrapuntal circles for some time to come.
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