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Mozart, Tchaikovsky & Lyuh: Music for String Quartet / Esmé Quartet

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Composer
Soo Yeon Lyuh, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Artist
Esme Quartet
Format
CD
Label
Alpha
Released
Mar 24, 2023
Catalog #
ALPHA923
UPC
3760014199233

About

The 'Dissonance' Quartet is probably the best-known of the set of six Mozart wrote between 1782 and 1785 as a tribute to Haydn. It owes its nickname to the strange clashes of the slow introduction in C minor. Almost a century later, the thirty-year-old Tchaikovsky wrote his Quartet no.1, op.11, whose second movement, which moved Tolstoy to tears, was inspired by a folk tune that the composer heard a housepainter whistling. The musicians of the Esmé Quartet chose these two pieces because they love their respective Andante cantabile movements. The four young women also decided to put the spotlight on one of their compatriots, the South Korean composer Soo Yeon Lyuh, who in 2016 wrote Yessori, 'sound of the past', for the Kronos Quartet. She explains: 'I first got used to playing the piano and the violin. So, later, when I encountered Korean traditional music, its relative pitch relationships and fluid rhythmic cycles felt completely new.'

Tracklist 9 tracks

  1. 1 I. Adagio - Allegro 10:56
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Adagio - Allegro
    Duration
    10:56
    Composer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Ensemble
    Esmé Quartet
  2. 2 II. Andante cantabile 07:04
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Andante cantabile
    Duration
    07:04
    Composer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Ensemble
    Esmé Quartet
  3. 3 III. Menuetto: Allegro 04:42
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Menuetto: Allegro
    Duration
    04:42
    Composer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Ensemble
    Esmé Quartet
  4. 4 IV. Allegro molto 07:55
    Track
    4
    Title
    IV. Allegro molto
    Duration
    07:55
    Composer
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Ensemble
    Esmé Quartet
  5. 5 I. Moderato e simplice 11:28
    Track
    5
    Title
    I. Moderato e simplice
    Duration
    11:28
    Composer
    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    Ensemble
    Esmé Quartet
  6. 6 II. Andante cantabile 06:44
    Track
    6
    Title
    II. Andante cantabile
    Duration
    06:44
    Composer
    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    Ensemble
    Esmé Quartet
  7. 7 III. Scherzo: Allegro non tanto e con fuoco 04:11
    Track
    7
    Title
    III. Scherzo: Allegro non tanto e con fuoco
    Duration
    04:11
    Composer
    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    Ensemble
    Esmé Quartet
  8. 8 IV. Finale: Allegro giusto 07:04
    Track
    8
    Title
    IV. Finale: Allegro giusto
    Duration
    07:04
    Composer
    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    Ensemble
    Esmé Quartet
  9. 9 Yessori (Sound from the Past) 09:24
    Track
    9
    Title
    Yessori (Sound from the Past)
    Duration
    09:24
    Composer
    Soo Yeon Lyuh
    Ensemble
    Esmé Quartet