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EVIOLUTION - Fernando Marin

EVIOLUTION - Fernando Marin
ID: QTZ2075
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection: Instrumental
Subcollection: String instruments

This recording thus serves as homage to the memory of the glorious period, in which some of these instruments existed, in the form of a suggestive approach to the disquieting and enigmatic sonic world of the time. The exquisitely selected ingredients for this menu are sheep gut strings, Venice catline gut roped bass strings according to Praetorius, black horse hair for the bows, historical tunings (such as the French music played at 390 hertz), historical temperaments (Pythagorean for the Vihuela), English scordatura tuning, instruments made according to old techniques, instrument models of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, etc…

C.F. Abel - Pieces de Viole
A.de Cabezon - Fabordan
A. Ferrabosco sr. - Fantasia a tres, 3 lessons for the Lyra-Viol
S. de Machy - Pieces de Viole
D. Ortiz - Trattado de glosas
Sainte Colombe the elder: Pieces de Viole
G.P. Telemann - Der getreue Music-Meister

Fernando Marin:
Vihuela de arco (440 Hz)
Lyra-viol (415 Hz)
Viola da Gamba (390 Hz & 415 Hz)
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Destination Paris - LENDVAI STRING TRIO

Destination Paris - LENDVAI STRING TRIO
ID: 5060192780079
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Subcollection: String instruments

This is the debut recording of an ensemble which is already in great demand around Europe. “Throughout, the fluidity of their phrasing and the way that they balanced the work’s classical elegance and its emotional complexity were compelling.” The Strad
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Kodály - Dohnányi - Chamber Works for Strings - Simon Smith - Clare Hayes - Paul Silverthorne - Katherine Jenkinson

Kodály - Dohnányi - Chamber Works for Strings - Simon Smith - Clare Hayes - Paul Silverthorne - Katherine Jenkinson
ID: RES10181
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: String instruments

Simon Smith (violin), Clare Hayes (violin), Paul Silverthorne (viola) & Katherine Jenkinson ('cello)
Following on from his acclaimed Resonus debut of solo works by Bartók and Kurtág (Signs, Games & Messages - RES10167), virtuoso violinist Simon Smith returns to the label with an enticing programme of chamber works for strings by Zoltán Kodály and Ernő Dohnányi.

Joined by colleagues Clare Hayes (violin), Paul Silverthorne (viola) & Katherine Jenkinson (‘cello), Smith presents three seminal chamber works from the first half of the twentieth century, performed with considerable élan by this exceptional collaboration.
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Helmut Lachenmann - Streichquartette - String Quartets

Helmut Lachenmann - Streichquartette - String Quartets
ID: KAI0012662
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Subcollection: String instruments

“The three quartets provide a commentary on each other and the time in which they were composed. Gran Torso has something of an investigation about it, of a broaching, of forays into critical new land. Reigen designates the sounds and techniques of two very different regions. Grido gains a new expressiveness- the land of music is freely praised and celebrated, although never without reflexive refraction or arousing disturbance. In the Choral at the end comes a sharp crack, a bark, before the music collapses.”
(Martin Kaltenecker)

Includes booklet with texts by Martin Kaltenecker
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Wolfgang Rihm - Musik für drei Streicher / Trio Recherche

Wolfgang Rihm - Musik für drei Streicher / Trio Recherche
ID: KAI0012042
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: String instruments

Wolfgang Rihm's 'Music for Three Strings' is an immediately striking piece, opening with violent, barely controlled chordal attacks, which become long drones. The first three movements proceed thus, punctuated by long sections of silence. Rihm freely refers to tonal harmony without confining himself to it. The music is reminiscent of the New Viennese School before it became dogmatic in its strict adherence to atonality. The influence of early Berg is audible in the middle section (three "Canzonas") as well as recurring quotations from the late Beethoven quartets.
Much of the material requires strident playing, but also very sensitive ensemble work. For example, many of the triple forte attacks are accompanied by droning pianissimo in the other voices, which must remain audible. The Trio Recherche does a remarkable job of enacting the mania of the first section without stepping on each other's toes. Throughout the work they bring out the expressionistic fervor in Rihm's music with intelligent and supportive playing.
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Brian Ferneyhough - Terrain

Brian Ferneyhough - Terrain
ID: KAI0013072
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection: Contemporary music

Brian John Peter Ferneyhough is an English composer of contemporary classical music. His complex, multi-layered music is distinctive and his output spans many genres of contemporary music, from chamber works to orchestral pieces. Between 1987 and 1999 he was Professor of Music at the University of California at San Diego. As of 1999, he is William H. Bonsall Professor in Music at Stanford University. For the 2007-08 academic year, he was appointed Visiting Professor at the Harvard University Department of Music.

The works of the British composer Brian Ferneyhough have been performed throughout the world. The compositions on this CD focus on the relationship between soloist and ensemble and the relationship of the music to tradition.

1 - Graeme Jennings, violin
2, 5 - Geoffrey Morris, guitar
2 - Ken Murray, guitar
3 - Carl Rosman, clarinet
4 - Erkki Veltheim, viola
3 - Jean Deroyer, conductor
1, 4, 5 - Franck Ollu, conductor
1- 5 ELISION Ensemble
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JESUS RUEDA - String quartets - KNM Berlin

JESUS RUEDA - String quartets - KNM Berlin
ID: KAI0013122
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Subcollection: String instruments

In his String Quartets Rueda exhibits, his special capacity for inextricably bringing together an array of compositional techniques and results, structure and instinctive feeling, a latent capacity for development and communication. The quartets of Jesús Rueda act as a renewal of the heartfelt consciousness to sense and feel music, something to which we have always been getting closer to. (Javier Arias Bal)

Includes booklet with texts by Javier Arias Bal
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An English Renaissance - George Caird,oboe and friends

An English Renaissance - George Caird,oboe and friends
ID: CC2009
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Subcollection: Oboe

George Caird (oboe) with
Simon Blendis (violin), Louise Williams (viola), Jane Salmon (cello), Alison Dods (violin 2 in Maconchy, Gow), David Adams (violin 2 in Bliss)


The CD booklet contains a 2,500-word article by George Caird on the music in English, French and German.
There are more photos of the performers and the recording session.


This recording brings together five remarkable works for oboe and strings written between 1926 and 1946 and representing an English renaissance for the oboe as a chamber music instrument. It is a period which is musically very rich and diverse, with English composers showing new influences from Europe and America. The range and expression across these works is striking and is a tribute to the artistry of the oboist Léon Goossens, who is the dedicatee of three of the works and who taught the dedicatees of certainly one and possibly both of the other two. He was also the player behind two other important works by Bax and Finzi. These magnificent seven works, it can be argued, established a repertoire for oboe quartets and quintets and did much to promote the oboe as a chamber music instrument.

Goossens’ exquisite playing was characterised by a distinctive and sensitive sound, beautiful phrasing, a wide dynamic and tonal range and great rhythmic vitality. His collaboration with Sir Arnold Bax produced the first significant work for oboe and strings, the Quintet written in 1922 and recorded by Goossens with the International Quartet in 1924 (featured on Oboe Classics CC2005). Bax’s music, with its pastoral and elegiac qualities together with a strong Irish influence leant itself superbly to Goossens’ playing and this work must surely be partly responsible for the works on this recording. copyright George Caird 2004
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Music for Oboe and Strings - Janet Craxton

Music for Oboe and Strings - Janet Craxton
ID: CC2011
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Subcollection: Oboe

Janet Craxton (1929-81) founded the London Oboe Quartet with Perry Hart (violin), Brian Hawkins (viola) and Kenneth Heath (cello) in 1968, and later with Charles Tunnell (cello) after Kenneth Heath's death in 1977. During the twelve years of its existence the Quartet played at most of the major UK music festivals and made frequent BBC broadcasts, from which these recordings are taken. Janet Craxton was always a champion of new music, and the Quartet commissioned five of the six works on this CD, as well as music by Neil Sanders, Alan Rawsthorne, Oliver Knussen, John Exton and John McCabe.
A previous Oboe Classics CD, An English Renaissance, celebrated Leon Goossens with a number of works inspired by his oboe playing. In the notes for that CD George Caird commented that in the generation following Goossens „the oboe playing of Janet Craxton should be singled out as the torch-bearer for music for oboe and strings. But that, and the composers who wrote for her, is another story.“
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L.van Beethoven - String Quartet Rasumovsky No.2 and No. 3 - Quartetto Italiano

L.van Beethoven - String Quartet Rasumovsky No.2 and  No. 3 - Quartetto Italiano
ID: PTC5186176
CDs: 1
Type: SACD
Subcollection: String instruments

Multichannel Hybrid SACD - DSD

Quartetto Italiano Paolo Borciani - 1st violin Elisa Pegreffi - 2nd violin Piero Farulli - viola Franco Rossi - cello
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