Ligeti - String Quartets
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Label: Naxos
Cat No: 8570781
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 30th November 2009
Contents
Artists
Parker QuartetWorks
Andante and AllegrettoString Quartet no.1 'Metamorphoses nocturnes'
String Quartet no.2
Artists
Parker QuartetAbout
While indebted to his compatriot Bartók for its folk-inflected passages, Ligeti’s First Quartet, subtitled 'Métamorphoses nocturnes', is nonetheless a work of striking originality.
The Second Quartet, composed around fifteen years later, abounds in contrasts between glacial stillness and manic activity, mechanistic pizzicatos and gentle oscillations.
His early Andante and Allegro is richly expressive and easily accessible.
“The Parker Quartet is equally persuasive at both extremes… in Ligeti’s two full-fledged quartets, these musicians brought considerable warmth and richness of tone to sweetly accented themes and gentle chordal writing, and unbridled textural brashness to the more volatile passages.” - The New York Times
Parker Quartet:
- Daniel Chong (violin I)
- Karen Kim (violin II)
- Jessica Bodner (viola)
- Kee-Hyun Kim (cello)
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