Schumann Quartett: Chiaroscuro
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Label: Berlin Classics
Cat No: 0301213BC
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 17th May 2019
Contents
Works
LullabyString Quartet no.2 'Company'
String Quartet no.2 'Intimate Letters'
Pieces (4) for String Quartet, op.81
Pieces (2) for string quartet (1931)
Bagatelles (6) for string quartet, op.9
Artists
Schumann QuartettWorks
LullabyString Quartet no.2 'Company'
String Quartet no.2 'Intimate Letters'
Pieces (4) for String Quartet, op.81
Pieces (2) for string quartet (1931)
Bagatelles (6) for string quartet, op.9
Artists
Schumann QuartettAbout
After searching for their own roots in Landscapes and engaging with their namesake Robert Schumann in Intermezzo, the four musicians complete their trilogy with the album Chiaroscuro, which in itself represents an equally exciting journey through time and temperament. By way of Mozart’s arrangements of five selected fugues from Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier II they look left and right into very different musical rooms. There are two early pieces for string quartet by Shostakovich, Philip Glass’s “Company” string quartet, a short fugue by Felix Mendelssohn, and the Six Bagatelles op.9 by Anton Webern. The whole promenade culminates in Janáček’s last work, his Second String Quartet.
Chiaroscuro – Italian for “light and dark” – is the name of the programme. The Schumann Quartet combines works that could not be more different. It is a question of the “unity that the album forms”, perhaps not in spite of, but just because of the contrasts. And when at the very end of the album, at the very end of the whole trilogy, we hear Gershwin’s Lullaby, we cannot shake off the feeling that all this is such stuff as dreams are made of.
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