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The Four Quarters

Solem Quartet

The Four Quarters

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This terrific, imaginative debut recording from the young British quartet is built around the eponymous 2011 work by Thomas Adès, which is interleaved with the group's own arrangements of works...

Katherine Cooper, Presto Music, September 2021

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The Four Quarters

Solem Quartet

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Awards:

This terrific, imaginative debut recording from the young British quartet is built around the eponymous 2011 work by Thomas Adès, which is interleaved with the group's own arrangements of works...

Katherine Cooper, Presto Music, September 2021

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Using Thomas Ades’ The Four Quarters as a framework – and featuring several arrangements by the ensemble – the Solem Quartet’s long-awaited debut album explores composers’ depictions of night and day and all the moments in between; from the melodious dawn chorus of Cassandra Miller’s Warblework, via Bartok’s earthly and touching portrayal of An Evening in the Village to Kate Bush’s ethereal And Dream Of Sheep.

  • Release date: 17th Sep 2021
  • Label: Orchid Classics
  • Catalogue number: ORC100172
  • Length: 61 minutes
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Contents and tracklist

Adès: The Four Quarters
Work length6:22
  • The Solem Quartet, Amy Tress, William Newell, Stephen Upshaw, Stephanie Tress
I. Nightfalls
Track length6:22
Excerpt,Gurney: Five Elizabethan Songs
Work length3:53
  • The Solem Quartet, Amy Tress, William Newell, Stephen Upshaw, Stephanie Tress
No. 5, Sleep (Arr. W. Newell for String Quartet)
Track length3:53
Miller, Cassandra: Warblework
Work length4:21
  • The Solem Quartet, Amy Tress, William Newell, Stephen Upshaw, Stephanie Tress
III. Hermit Thrush
Track length4:21
Ca' the Yowes (Arr. S. Tress for String Quartet)
Work length2:20
  • Stephanie Tress (electronics), The Solem Quartet, Amy Tress, William Newell, Stephen Upshaw
Adès: The Four Quarters
Work length3:18
  • The Solem Quartet, Amy Tress, William Newell, Stephen Upshaw, Stephanie Tress
II. Serenade, Morning Dew
Track length3:18
Purcell: By beauteous softness (from Now does the glorious day appear, Z332)
Work length3:26
  • Arr. Amy Tress for String Quartet
  • The Solem Quartet, Amy Tress, William Newell, Stephen Upshaw, Stephanie Tress
Marsey: Be nice to see you
Work length7:46
  • William Marsey (tape), The Solem Quartet, Amy Tress, William Newell, Stephen Upshaw, Stephanie Tress
Miller, Cassandra: Warblework
Work length4:53
  • The Solem Quartet, Amy Tress, William Newell, Stephen Upshaw, Stephanie Tress
IV. Veery
Track length4:53
Adès: The Four Quarters
Work length3:49
  • The Solem Quartet, Amy Tress, William Newell, Stephen Upshaw, Stephanie Tress
III. Days
Track length3:49
Price, F: Summer Moon
Work length3:11
  • Arr. W. Newell for String Quartet
  • The Solem Quartet, Amy Tress, William Newell, Stephen Upshaw, Stephanie Tress
Bartók: Hungarian Sketches, BB 103, Sz. 97: No. 1, Evening in Transylvania
Work length2:59
  • Arr. W. Newell for String Quartet
  • The Solem Quartet, Amy Tress, William Newell, Stephen Upshaw, Stephanie Tress
Schumann: Kinderszenen, Op. 15: XII. Kind im Einschlummern
Work length2:09
  • Arr. W. Newell for String Quartet
  • The Solem Quartet, Amy Tress, William Newell, Stephen Upshaw, Stephanie Tress
Parker, Aaron: Tuoretu
Work length4:32
  • The Solem Quartet, Amy Tress, William Newell, Stephen Upshaw, Stephanie Tress
IV. Easqelä (Suspended, Spacious, in a Dusky Half Light)
Track length4:32
Adès: The Four Quarters
Work length4:00
  • The Solem Quartet, Amy Tress, William Newell, Stephen Upshaw, Stephanie Tress
IV. The Twenty-Fifth Hour
Track length4:00
Bush, K: And Dream of Sheep (Arr. W. Newell for String Quartet)
Work length4:23
  • Arr. W. Newell for String Quartet
  • William Newell (tape), The Solem Quartet, Amy Tress, Stephen Upshaw, Stephanie Tress

Awards and reviews

  • Presto Editor's Choice
    September 2021

September 2021

This terrific, imaginative debut recording from the young British quartet is built around the eponymous 2011 work by Thomas Adès, which is interleaved with the group's own arrangements of works by Gurney, Florence Price, Bartók and others as well as individual movements of Cassandra Miller's birdsong-inspired Warblework.
Katherine Cooper
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