Release Date: 02 April 2021
Label: ECM Records
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 028948554171
Genres: Classical Chamber Music
Description
The third volume of the Danish String Quartet's ongoing Prism series, which shows how the radiance of Bach's fugues is refracted through Beethoven's quartets to illuminate the work of later composers.
"Beethoven had taken a fundamentally linear development from Bach," the Danes note, "and exploded everything into myriads of different colours, directions and opportunities – much in the same way as a prism splits a beam of light."
Here the quartet follow the beam from Johann Sebastian Bach's Fugue in c-sharp minor through Ludwig van Beethoven's String Quartet no.14 to Bela Bartok's String Quartet No.1.
"The Danish String Quartet's Prism series is building into an exceptionally rewarding venture........a stimulating and compelling disc." BBC Music Magazine ****
"A revelatory connected soundscape in which Beethoven's introspection feels more unsettling than usual." - BBC Music Magazine on Prism II
"It's natural music-making....." - Gramophone Magazine on Prism II
Tracklisting
Various artists
Yuval Cohen Quartet
Thomas Stronen; Craig Taborn; Chris Potter; Sinikka Langeland; Jorge Rossy
Stephan Micus
Rainer Bruninghaus
Paul Bley
Mathias Eick; Kristjan Randalu; Ole Morten Vagan; Hans Hulbaekmo
Julia Hulsmann Quartet
Danish String Quartet
Danish String Quartet
Danish String Quartet
Danish String Quartet
Danish String Quartet
Danish String Quartet
Danish String Quartet
