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Zapf: String Quartets / Sonar Quartett

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Details

Composer
ZAPF, HELMUT
Artist
SONAR QUARTETT
Format
CD
Label
Wergo
Released
Jul 28, 2017
Catalog #
WER73482
UPC
4010228734829

About

String quartets have for a long time been received as a conversation between four rational people. For 20th and 21st century composers wanting to leave this idea of a discussion behind, the question has been: in what other ways can one write for two violins, viola, and violoncello? Helmut Zapf’s three string quartets perfectly illustrate the stages of such a confrontation. They have appeared throughout his entire career as a composer, and can be understood as markers for different periods in his compositional output. In Zapfs first string quartet elements of an individual musical rhetoric survive and are clearly understandable as such. However, the context – the “rational conversation” – is now present in only a rudimentary fashion. The second string quartet is a logical continuation of the path already established by Zapf: the last remnants of rhetoric and conversational discourse are dispensed with. The four instruments do not act individually, but are treated as a single organism. The third string quartet has been written for the Sonar group. This composition takes up the experiences of the previous pieces and at the same time tries to connect with the tradition: a reconnection from a great and skeptical distance.

Tracklist 12 tracks

  1. 1 String Quartet No. 3 17:25
    Track
    1
    Title
    String Quartet No. 3
    Duration
    17:25
    Composer
    Helmut Zapf
    Ensemble
    Sonar Quartett
  2. 2 Sound 15:50
    Track
    2
    Title
    Sound
    Duration
    15:50
    Composer
    Helmut Zapf
    Ensemble
    Sonar Quartett
  3. 3 String Quartet No. 1 08:20
    Track
    3
    Title
    String Quartet No. 1
    Duration
    08:20
    Composer
    Helmut Zapf
    Ensemble
    Sonar Quartett
  4. 4 I. leeres brennen 03:42
    Track
    4
    Title
    I. leeres brennen
    Duration
    03:42
    Composer
    Helmut Zapf
    Ensemble
    Sonar Quartett
  5. 5 II. Eis am fenster 03:19
    Track
    5
    Title
    II. Eis am fenster
    Duration
    03:19
    Composer
    Helmut Zapf
    Ensemble
    Sonar Quartett
  6. 6 III. Allein gelassen die lichter 02:32
    Track
    6
    Title
    III. Allein gelassen die lichter
    Duration
    02:32
    Composer
    Helmut Zapf
    Ensemble
    Sonar Quartett
  7. 7 IV. Gedämpfte laute 02:29
    Track
    7
    Title
    IV. Gedämpfte laute
    Duration
    02:29
    Composer
    Helmut Zapf
    Ensemble
    Sonar Quartett
  8. 8 V. Wo die grenze zur dunkelheit war 00:47
    Track
    8
    Title
    V. Wo die grenze zur dunkelheit war
    Duration
    00:47
    Composer
    Helmut Zapf
    Ensemble
    Sonar Quartett
  9. 9 VI. Ein denken, schneller als this denken 02:50
    Track
    9
    Title
    VI. Ein denken, schneller als this denken
    Duration
    02:50
    Composer
    Helmut Zapf
    Ensemble
    Sonar Quartett
  10. 10 VII. Unstetes gemurmel 03:41
    Track
    10
    Title
    VII. Unstetes gemurmel
    Duration
    03:41
    Composer
    Helmut Zapf
    Ensemble
    Sonar Quartett
  11. 11 VIII. Horizont hinterm schornstein (schatten) 01:49
    Track
    11
    Title
    VIII. Horizont hinterm schornstein (schatten)
    Duration
    01:49
    Composer
    Helmut Zapf
    Ensemble
    Sonar Quartett
  12. 12 IX. Kein anzeichen für wunder 05:01
    Track
    12
    Title
    IX. Kein anzeichen für wunder
    Duration
    05:01
    Composer
    Helmut Zapf
    Ensemble
    Sonar Quartett