Release Date: 17 January 2025
Label: Bis / BIS Records
Packaging Type: EcoPak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 7318599926933
Genres: Classical Chamber Music
Composer/Series: Gyorgy Ligeti
Description
For its first recording for BIS Records, the Marmen Quartet tackles three major works from the twentieth-century string quartet literature. The two quartets by Gyorgy Ligeti belong to two different periods in the composer's output. Written before Ligeti left Hungary and emigrated to the West, the First, subtitled 'Metamorphoses nocturnes', represents the peak of his 'Hungarian' period. Regarded as a virtuoso exercise, the work reveals the influences of Bela Bartok, particularly from his Third and Fourth Quartets. Ligeti's Second Quartet belongs to his second period, particularly rich in significant works. Considered by the composer as a response to the works of his illustrious predecessors such as Mozart, Beethoven, Bartok and Berg, the Second Quartet, with its calculated anarchy, dynamic extremes and sublime climaxes, is not only one of Ligeti's masterpieces but also a true classic of modernism. Bela Bartok's Fourth Quartet, which had a particularly strong influence on Ligeti, is widely seen as one of his most radical; it requires high levels of technical accomplishment from the performers, yet reveals a deep understanding of the instruments, and draws an un-precedented range of colour and character from them.
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Marmen Quartet
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Manz, Plath, Klieser, Holscher, Lee, Ionita, Wagner
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Wolfgang Rubsam
Waldmuoller Trio Wien
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Vincent Bernhardt & La Chapelle Saint-Marc
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Vanessa Wagner; Wilhem Latchoumia
