Asteriades - String Quartet, Vertonte Gedichte
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Label: Audiomax
Cat No: AUD70723142
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 12th April 2024
Contents
Artists
Ursula Thurmair (mezzo-soprano)Jorg Gottschick (baritone)
Paul Rivinius (piano)
Giocoso String Quartet
Works
String QuartetVertonte Gedichte
Artists
Ursula Thurmair (mezzo-soprano)Jorg Gottschick (baritone)
Paul Rivinius (piano)
Giocoso String Quartet
About
Asteriades is a self-taught composer, as well as a violinist, musicologist and doctor of philosophy. His music is inspired by the great masters spanning six centuries, who have set him on his very own compositional path. Even though there are no triadic references, the music is definitely tonal. The Giocoso String Quartet masterfully present harmonies with parallel fifths and fourths which have an archaic reminiscence of medieval organum.
Ave Maris Stella (hail, star of the sea) is at the heart of the String Quartet. Asteriades takes this 11th-century medieval hymn in praise of the Virgin Mary and puts it in the form a ricercar, an instrumental piece laid out in strictly contrapuntal manner, such that each voice is absolutely independent of the other, yet contributes to a unified whole (coincidentia oppositorum - a correspondence of opposites).
Ursula Thurmair and Jörg Gottschick sing poems by Goethe, Georg Trakl and Friedrich Hölderlin, amongst others, accompanied by Paul Rivinius's fine piano playing. In the tradition of 19th-century classical piano song, the music adds a new layer of meaning to these enchanting poems, composed in song and yet in a contemporary musical language rarely heard today.
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