093228084624

New Americana: String Quartets For The 21st Century

Momenta Quartet

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Format: CD

Cat No: NW80846

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Release Date:  11 December 2026

Label:  New World Records

Packaging Type:  Digipak

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  093228084624

Genres:  Classical  Chamber Music  

Composer/Series:  New Americana

  • Description

    The present recording celebrates the staggering variety of the American string quartet in the 21st century. All but one of the five works was given its first performance by the Momenta Quartet, a group which was founded nearly 22 years ago. Like most of the music of Shawn Jaeger (b. 1985), Thy Wondering Eyes (2010) takes its inspiration from folk music traditions of the American South; in particular, the quartet evokes the hymn singing of Old Regular Baptists of central Appalachia. The most unabashedly tonal work here, Elizabeth Brown's (b. 1953) Just Visible in the Distance (2013) is subdivided into ten small movements which are collected into two larger, roughly equally sized portions. Jason Kao Hwang's (b. 1957) If We Live in Forgetfulness, We Die in a Dream (2011) is his first fully notated work for string quartet and it is informed by a lifetime of improvising on the violin and composing for other improvisers.

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