Beethoven/Bartok/Bach - Prism III
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN / BELA BARTOK / J. S. BACH
Beethoven/Bartok/Bach - Prism III
Danish String Quartet
[ ECM New Series / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 26 March 2021
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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 Béla Bartók's String Quartet No.1.
"These aren't warm interpretations; they repel as readily as they attract. But they're thought-provoking, and often startlingly beautiful. And anyway, perhaps one shouldn't draw too close to the music." Gramophone
"Parts of the Shostakovich are so blanched they hardly live; close recording allows for the pain to come through. In contrast comes the raw, dynamic energy of Beethoven's Op 127, whose more interior passages link directly to the Shostakovich." ClassicalMusic
Tracks:
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN - STRING QUARTET NO. 14 IN C-SHARP MINOR, OP. 131
1.Adagio ma non troppo e molto
2.Allegro molto vivace
3.Allegro moderato - Adagio
4.Andante ma non troppo e molto
5.Presto
6.Adagio quasi un poco andante
7.Allegro
BÉLA BARTÓK - STRING QUARTET NO. 1, OP. 7 SZ. 40
8.Lento
9.Allegretto
10.Introduzione. Allegro
11.Allegro vivace
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH, ARR. EMANUEL ALOYS FÖRSTER - THE WELL-TEMPERED CLAVIER, BOOK I
12.Fugue C-sharp minor, BWV 849
