Esme Quartet: YeSSori Sound from the Past - COMPACT DISCS

Esme Quartet: YeSSori Sound from the Past - COMPACT DISCS

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YeSSori Sound from the Past

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Esme Quartet

Label:

Alpha

Product Type:

COMPACT DISCS

UPC:

3760014199233

Genre:

Classical

Release Date:

2023-03-24

Number of Discs:

1

The 'Dissonance' Quartet is probably the best-known of the set of six Mozart wrote between 1782 and 1785 as a tribute to Haydn. It owes it's nickname to the strange clashes of the slow introduction in C minor. Almost a century later, the thirty-year-old Tchaikovsky wrote his Quartet no.1, op.11, whose second movement, which moved Tolstoy to tears, was inspired by a folk tune that the composer heard a housepainter whistling. The musicians of the Esmé Quartet chose these two pieces because they love their respective Andante cantabile movements. The four young women also decided to put the spotlight on one of their compatriots, the South Korean composer Soo Yeon Lyuh, who in 2016 wrote Yessori, 'sound of the past', for the Kronos Quartet. She explains: 'I first got used to playing the piano and the violin. So, later, when I encountered Korean traditional music, it's relative pitch relationships and fluid rhythmic cycles felt completely new.'

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