String Quartets: Volume 2
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RUED LANGGAARD
String Quartets: Volume 2
Nightingale String Quartet
[ Dacapo / CD ]
Release Date: Tuesday 1 July 2014
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Rued Langgaard's string quartets are passionate works from the eccentric composer's youth. This recording series presents all 9 quartets together for the first time in the distinctly dramatic interpretation of the prizewinning Nightingale String Quartet. With this release we have reached the world premiere recording of Rosengaardsspil (Rose Garden Play)
"As in their first Langgaard disc the Nightingales play this music with an understanding and love that puts competitors in the shade. And it's all beautifully recorded. Recommended - so long as you start with Rose Garden Play!" BBC Music Magazine, April 2014 *****
"this is a highly impressive reading of a work [Rose Garden Play] anticipating Janacek's quartets in sheer emotional acuity...The A flat Quartet is music of greater poise and restrain...A winning account of a work whose standing outside the numbered series can only have hindered its progress...One can only look forward to the final release in this important and worthwhile series." Gramophone Magazine, April 2014
"Besides Langgaard's delightful, fundamentally hospitable music, the NSQ's interpretations are also most commendable...A blend of expressive astuteness and technical self-confidence leaves the whole project smelling aptly of roses." MusicWeb International, 15th March 2014
Tracks:
Rosengaardsspil (Rose Garden Play), BVN 153
String Quartet in A flat major, BVN 155
String Quartet No. 4, BVN 215 'Summer Days'
