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Prism III - Beethoven, Bartok, Bach
Danish String Quartet
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
- Danish String Quartet (string quartet), Rune Tonsgaard Sorensen (violin), Frederik Øland (violin), Asbjørn Nørgaard (viola), Fredrik Schøyen Sjölin (cello)
- Recorded: 2017-11-08
- Recording Venue: Reitstadel, Neumarkt
- Danish String Quartet (string quartet), Rune Tonsgaard Sorensen (violin), Frederik Øland (violin), Asbjørn Nørgaard (viola), Fredrik Schøyen Sjölin (cello)
- Recorded: 2017-11-08
- Recording Venue: Reitstadel, Neumarkt
- Danish String Quartet (string quartet), Rune Tonsgaard Sorensen (violin), Frederik Øland (violin), Asbjørn Nørgaard (viola), Fredrik Schøyen Sjölin (cello)
- Recorded: 2017-11-08
- Recording Venue: Reitstadel, Neumarkt
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.