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Beethoven: String Quartets Nos. 3 & 14 - Hillborg: Kongsgaard Variations / Calder Quartet
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Beethoven: String Quartets Nos. 3 & 14 - Hillborg: Kongsgaard Variations / Calder Quartet

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Details

Composer
BEETHOVEN HILLBORG
Artist
CALDER QUARTET
Format
SACD
Label
PENTATONE
Released
Apr 19, 2019
Catalog #
PTC5186718
UPC
827949071867

About

The Calder Quartet invites you on a journey from early to late Beethoven, passing through an exciting contemporary piece by Swedish composer Anders Hillborg along the way. Beethoven’s Op. 131 string quartet, that concludes this album, is already a great adventure in its own right, with its seven movements full of fugal writing, harmonic explorations, variations and passages filled with operatic drama. Hearing this late masterpiece together with the much more classical, but equally lively, Op. 18 no. 3 quartet opens our ears to the exceptional richness of Beethoven’s musical universe. Hillborg’s Kongsgaard Variations reveals unexpected sonic relationships to Beethoven’s variation technique, underlining the modernity of the older composer. This all leads to a program that is lively, layered and ravishingly beautiful. Hailed as one of the most exciting classical music groups of the United States, the Calder Quartet now presents the first fruit of its exclusive collaboration with PENTATONE.

Tracklist 12 tracks

  1. 1 I. Allegro 08:15
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Allegro
    Duration
    08:15
    Composer
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    Ensemble
    Calder Quartet
  2. 2 II. Andante con moto 08:10
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Andante con moto
    Duration
    08:10
    Composer
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    Ensemble
    Calder Quartet
  3. 3 III. Allegro 02:58
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Allegro
    Duration
    02:58
    Composer
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    Ensemble
    Calder Quartet
  4. 4 IV. Presto 07:02
    Track
    4
    Title
    IV. Presto
    Duration
    07:02
    Composer
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    Ensemble
    Calder Quartet
  5. 5 Kongsgaard Variations 13:58
    Track
    5
    Title
    Kongsgaard Variations
    Duration
    13:58
    Composer
    Anders Hillborg
    Ensemble
    Calder Quartet
  6. 6 I. Adagio, ma non troppo e molto espressivo - 06:15
    Track
    6
    Title
    I. Adagio, ma non troppo e molto espressivo -
    Duration
    06:15
    Composer
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    Ensemble
    Calder Quartet
  7. 7 II. Allegro molto vivace - 03:14
    Track
    7
    Title
    II. Allegro molto vivace -
    Duration
    03:14
    Composer
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    Ensemble
    Calder Quartet
  8. 8 III. Allegro moderato - Adagio - 00:47
    Track
    8
    Title
    III. Allegro moderato - Adagio -
    Duration
    00:47
    Composer
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    Ensemble
    Calder Quartet
  9. 9 IV. Andante, ma non troppo e molto cantabile - 13:20
    Track
    9
    Title
    IV. Andante, ma non troppo e molto cantabile -
    Duration
    13:20
    Composer
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    Ensemble
    Calder Quartet
  10. 10 V. Presto - Molto poco adagio - 05:48
    Track
    10
    Title
    V. Presto - Molto poco adagio -
    Duration
    05:48
    Composer
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    Ensemble
    Calder Quartet
  11. 11 VI. Adagio quasi un poco andante - 02:03
    Track
    11
    Title
    VI. Adagio quasi un poco andante -
    Duration
    02:03
    Composer
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    Ensemble
    Calder Quartet
  12. 12 VII. Allegro 07:03
    Track
    12
    Title
    VII. Allegro
    Duration
    07:03
    Composer
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    Ensemble
    Calder Quartet