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Label: Pentatone

Cat No: PTC5187227

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 10th May 2024

Contents

About

The Miró Quartet presents Home, a new album that explores the many concepts of what the term “home” can mean. Its complexity is woven in a variety of ways into the music: the pieces, all composed by Americans past and present, invite you to feel, reflect, and engage in Miró’s world.

In this regard, the album also represents the United States, Miró's artistic home, in many ways. The programme presents two new commissions by Kevin Puts and Caroline Shaw, as well as known and lesser-known works by George Walker and Samuel Barber.

This is the Miró Quartet’s second album on Pentatone, following the recording of Beethoven's Complete String Quartets.

Reviews

As it describes the pain of being forcibly driven from one’s home, [Puts’s] music follows a journey from the deep-seated comfort of repeated chords to the anguish of dislocation, a taut and concentrated structure. ... The Miró Quartet offers expert performances of its pair of commissions. The Walker and Barber favourites, the latter heard in the context of Barber’s complete String Quartet in B Minor, Op 11, make warm-hearted interludes to two high-quality new works.
Financial Times

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