Escher String Quartet - Barber & Ives: String Quartets (2021)
Escher String Quartet - Barber & Ives: String Quartets (2021)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 350 Mb | Total time: 74:15 | Scans included
Classical | Label: BIS | # BIS-SACD-2360 | Recorded: 2019
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 350 Mb | Total time: 74:15 | Scans included
Classical | Label: BIS | # BIS-SACD-2360 | Recorded: 2019
Previous releases from the New York-based Escher Quartet include an acclaimed set of Mendelsohn’s six string quartets as well as an album with works by Dvořák, Tchaikovsky and Borodin. For their latest offering the members have looked closer to home, however, choosing to combine the quartets by Samuel Barber and Charles Ives. The disc opens with Barber’s String Quartet in B minor, containing the music for which the composer remains best-known: the second movement which he two years later expanded into Adagio for Strings. Recognizing its potential already while composing it, Barber described the piece as ‘a knock-out’ – which made it all the more difficult to come up with a third movement worthy to follow it. In the end he decided to make the quartet a two-movement work, but the Eschers have here included the lively third movement that the composer discarded, offering the opportunity to hear the work as it was once planned. Barber is followed by the two full-scale quartets by Charles Ives, as well as a brief Scherzo. Like many other compositions by Ives, his First Quartet makes extensive use of revival and gospel hymns, quoting them in all four movements in a highly accessible tonal idiom. Far more challenging, the Second Quartet is a portrayal of ‘four men / who converse, discuss, argue … fight, shake hands, shut up / then walk up the mountainside to view the firmament’ – a programme which invites a liberal use of dissonance, but also – towards the end – a particularly fulfilling resolution.
Performer:
Escher String Quartet:
Adam Barnett-Hart & Danbi Um, violins
Pierre Lapointe, viola
Brook Speltz, cello
Track List:
Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
String Quartet in B minor, Op. 11 (1936)
01. I. Molto allegro e appassionato
02. II. Molto adagio - attacca
03. III. Molto allegro (come prima) - Presto
04. String Quartet in B minor: original final movement
Charles Ives (1874-1954)
String Quartet No. 1 ‘From the Salvation Army’ (‘A Revival Service’)
05. I. Chorale. Andante con moto
06. II. Prelude. Allegro
07. III. Offertory. Adagio cantabile
08. IV. Postlude. Allegro marziale
09. Scherzo: ‘Holding Your Own’ (from A Set of Three Short Pieces) (1903-04)
String Quartet No. 2
10. I. Conversations & discussions: Andante moderato - Andante con spirito - Adagio molto
11. II. Arguments: Allegro con spirito
12. III. The call of the mountains: Adagio - Andante - Adagio
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Escher String Quartet - Barber & Ives: String Quartets (2021)
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