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The Solem Quartet - The Four Quarters (2021)

Posted By: Fizzpop

Date: 16 Sep 2021 15:49:00

Emerging from the depths of Covid are some of the freshest ideas we have seen in years. Here, a newly formed string quartet takes a 2012 score by the British composer Thomas Adès and intersects it with works of their own making, very old and very new. The Adès piece describes the earth’s 24-hour rotation on its own axis — neat, but not stunningly original in either concept or content.

Like his contemporary Young British Artists in the visual arts, Adès has amassed more eminence than admirers. His Four Quarters (sic) are eclectic to a fault: strongest in nocturnal echoes of late Beethoven and Bartók, insipid in post-modern squeaks and screws. Impressive as he was in his 20s, Adès has subsided into a maudlin midlife.

Kate Bush closes an album of string quartets — who ever thought you would read such a sentence?

But wait until you hear what the Solems make of his work. Between each movement, they insert an arrangement (mostly by second violin William Newell) of a familiar piece, or a new composition, played with passion and precision in a collagist album of constant compulsion. A Purcell lament is separated by a Cassandra Miller piece from an old English folksong. A Schumann lullaby jostles Florence Price. Kate Bush closes an album of string quartets: there, who ever thought you would read that sentence?

I love the lower strings more than the uppers, perhaps because, like the devil, they grab the best tunes. When I said the album was fresh, it is still hot from the oven: recorded in March this year. A gabby setting around a long phone conversation fails to hold my attention but there’s nothing else to fault in the playing and much to anticipate in this group’s emergence. They’re my frontrunners for New Talent 2021.

TRACKLIST

1. The Solem Quartet - I. Nightfalls
2. The Solem Quartet - No. 5, Sleep (Arr. W. Newell for String Quartet)
3. The Solem Quartet - III. Hermit Thrush
4. Stephanie Tress - Ca' the Yowes (Arr. S. Tress for String Quartet)
5. The Solem Quartet - II. Serenade, Morning Dew
6. The Solem Quartet - Now Does the Glorious Day Appear, Z. 332 (Arr. Amy Tress for String Quartet)
7. William Marsey - Be Nice to See You
8. The Solem Quartet - IV. Veery
9. The Solem Quartet - III. Days
10. The Solem Quartet - Summer Moon (Arr. W. Newell for String Quartet)
11. The Solem Quartet - Evening in Transylvania, Sz. 39 No. 5 (Arr. W. Newell for String Quartet)
12. The Solem Quartet - Child Falling Asleep, Op. 15 No. 12 (Arr. W. Newell for String Quartet)
13. The Solem Quartet - IV. Easqelä (Suspended, Spacious, in a Dusky Half Light)
14. The Solem Quartet - IV. The Twenty-Fifth Hour
15. William Newell - And Dream of Sheep (Arr. W. Newell for String Quartet)

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