Abrahamsen / Arditti String Quartet: String Quartets

Abrahamsen / Arditti String Quartet: String Quartets - COMPACT DISCS

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Title:

String Quartets

Artist:

Abrahamsen / Arditti String Quartet

Label:

Winter & Winter

Product Type:

COMPACT DISCS

UPC:

025091024223

Genre:

Classical

Release Date:

2017-10-20

Number of Discs:

1

Some composers identify early on with a particular genre. A quick glance at a list of works by the Dane Hans Abrahamsen seems to indicate a very different attitude. The profusion of titles suggests a mind that picks up a form, engages with it for the duration of the work itself, and then moves on to something fresh. There has been one significant exception however- the string quartet. Abrahamsen's four quartets span almost the whole of his composing career: Quartet No. 1 was composed in 1973, when Abrahamsen was in his early twenties; Quartet No. 4 appeared in 2012, as he entered his sixties. Not only so, but the quartets also draw a vital thread across the chasm at the heart of his life's work. This new release presents the aforementioned works as well as the two quartets that appeared between them, brilliantly performed by the Arditti String Quartet.

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