4260412810260

Klaus Fischer-dieskau: String Quartets

Albis Quartett

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Format: CD

Cat No: ARC21026

Release Date:  07 January 2022

Label:  Arcantus

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  4260412810260

Genres:  Classical  Chamber Music  

  • Description

    This recording celebrates the hundredth birthday of Klaus Fischer-Dieskau.

    He comes from a world-famous musical family; with him we associate the Hugo Distler Choir, which he founded in 1953 and directed until 1989.



    Above all, however, it is the compositional oeuvre of 110 Opera that could interest posterity.



    As part of this, the nine string quartets can be seen as stops in his compositional work. They go through all phases of its development, and the Ninth String Quartet was even given the title “Memories”.



    It is obvious that Klaus Fischer-Dieskau chose this form as a kind of intimate musical diary in the earlier string quartets as well. He began to compose string quartet No. 1 while he was at the front during World War II.



    String quartet No. 4 dates from 1978, with a further intensified devotion to counterpoint. The tonality is not given up, but is loosened up and developed further up to polytonality. At the same time, a striving for linear-polyphonic voice guidance becomes noticeable.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Streichquartett Nr. 1 D-moll Op. 16 (1946)
      • 4. Streichquartett Nr. 4 A-Dur Op. 81 (1978)