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Lachenmann: Complete String Quartets / Jack Quartet
Mode Records

Lachenmann: Complete String Quartets / Jack Quartet

$20.99

Details

Composer
LACHENMANN, HELMUT
Artist
JACK QUARTET
Format
CD
Label
Mode Records
Released
Apr 01, 2014
Catalog #
MOD-CD-267
UPC
764593026723

About

The JACK Quartet follow up their acclaimed, best selling release of Iannis Xenakis’ complete string quartets (mode 209) with a disc devoted to another iconoclastic European composer, Helmut Lachenmann. Lachenmann has created a unique sound world which he refers to as “instrumental musique concrete.” It is a world where the musical atom is not the note but the sound, which may be drawn from the instrument in all kinds of unusual ways. Strange as the soundscape may be, Lachenmann believes that the fundamental principles of music is about finding shape and continuity, about revealing the unexpected and touching the familiar, and that the string quartet, in particular, is about conversation. Even through all the use of extended techniques, this is still a music of gestures, phrases, even melodies. The JACK Quartet, specialists in new music, are the perfect performers for such repertoire. This recording is endorsed by the composer. Liner notes by Paul Griffiths.

Tracklist 3 tracks

  1. 1 String Quartet No. 1, "Gran Torso" 24:16
    Track
    1
    Title
    String Quartet No. 1, "Gran Torso"
    Duration
    24:16
    Composer
    Helmut Lachenmann
    Ensemble
    JACK Quartet
  2. 2 String Quartet No. 2, "Reigen seliger Geister" 26:38
    Track
    2
    Title
    String Quartet No. 2, "Reigen seliger Geister"
    Duration
    26:38
    Composer
    Helmut Lachenmann
    Ensemble
    JACK Quartet
  3. 3 String Quartet No. 3, "Grido" 25:25
    Track
    3
    Title
    String Quartet No. 3, "Grido"
    Duration
    25:25
    Composer
    Helmut Lachenmann
    Ensemble
    JACK Quartet