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Mark Simpson & Quatuor Diotima - Adès: ALCHYMIA (2023)

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Mark Simpson & Quatuor Diotima - Adès: ALCHYMIA (2023)

Mark Simpson & Quatuor Diotima - Adès: ALCHYMIA (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 93 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 57 Mb | 00:23:31
Classical | Label: Orchid Classics

Alchymia is a 2021 quintet for basset clarinet and strings by Thomas Adès composed for Mark Simpson and Quatuor Diotima. At its premiere it was Adès’ most substantial new chamber work in over a decade, following The Four Quarters (2010). Its title – the Latin word for alchemy, from the Arabic kīmiyā – evokes two complementary postures: speculative, mystical capriciousness and experimental precision.

Quatuor Diotima - American Music: Steve Reich, Samuel Barber, George Crumb (2011)

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Quatuor Diotima - American Music: Steve Reich, Samuel Barber, George Crumb (2011)

Quatuor Diotima - American Music: Steve Reich, Samuel Barber, George Crumb (2011)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 366 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 197 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical, Chamber Music | Label: Naïve | # V 5272 | Time: 01:07:18

For all the agony as to the status of classical music in the modern musical landscape, the three 20th century string quartets on this fine French release can be said to have entered the repertory, with a reach that extends far beyond the U.S. They go quite well together, which is the first point in favor of France's Quatuor Diotima here; both Steve Reich's Different Trains, for string quartet and tape, and George Crumb's Black Angels for electric quartet feature an artificially enhanced string quartet, and even Samuel Barber elected to "enhance" his String Quartet in B minor, Op. 11, by orchestrating its central movement and making it into the famous Adagio for strings. Highly recommended.

Quatuor Diotima - Metamorphosis Ligeti (2023)

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Quatuor Diotima - Metamorphosis Ligeti (2023)

Quatuor Diotima - Metamorphosis Ligeti (2023)
WEB FLAC (Tracks +Digital Booklet) 206 MB | Cover | 53:54 | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 128 MB
Classical | Label: PentaTone

Quatuor Diotima makes it's Pentatone debut with a recording of Györgi Ligeti's string quartets. While the second quartet from 1968 is an avantgarde classic, the first from 1953-54, "Metamorphoses nocturnes", is often nicknamed Bartók's seventh quartet, pointing out the continuity between these two Hungarian master composers. Despite moments of nostalgia, it already possesses the ferocious, adventurous nature of the later quartet. In-between these two iconoclast works, the Andante and Allegretto from 1950 offers an intimate moment of repose.

Quatuor Diotima - Conrado del Campo: String Quartets Nos. 3 & 5 (Live at the Fundación Juan March) (2022)

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Quatuor Diotima - Conrado del Campo: String Quartets Nos. 3 & 5 (Live at the Fundación Juan March) (2022)

Quatuor Diotima - Conrado del Campo: String Quartets Nos. 3 & 5 (Live at the Fundación Juan March) (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 384 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 178 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:16:16
Classical | Label: MarchVivo

Thr Album features the world premiere recordings of String Quartets Nos. 3 and 5 (six-movement version) by Conrado del Campo (1878-1953), one of the most original but least well-known Spanish composers of the first half of the twentieth century. The concert was part of the Proyecto Conrado, which involves programming the first complete cycle of his thirteen string quartets. This will go hand in hand with the publication of a complete edition of the scores, most of which have never been published, and the release of recordings of the quartets (in various formats). The aim of this ambitious initiative is to rescue a significant body of works from the undeserved neglect into which it has fallen.

Per Arne Glorvigen, Quatuor Diotima & GLO2020 - Violent Tenderness / Kykelipi / Polaco (2022)

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Per Arne Glorvigen, Quatuor Diotima & GLO2020 - Violent Tenderness / Kykelipi / Polaco (2022)

Per Arne Glorvigen, Quatuor Diotima & GLO2020 - Violent Tenderness / Kykelipi / Polaco (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 289 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 157 Mb | 01:08:19
Classical | Label: LAWO Classics

"After having worked on several pieces for bandoneon and orchestra in recent years, I felt the urge to present some of my chamber music. All music featuring the bandoneon inevitably conjures up associations with tango, and yes, my music is no exception, most apparent here in my works for bandoneon and string quartet, 'Violent Tenderness' and 'Polaco'."

Quatuor Diotima - George Onslow: String Quartets Op. 54-56 (2009)

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Quatuor Diotima - George Onslow: String Quartets Op. 54-56 (2009)

Quatuor Diotima - George Onslow: String Quartets Op. 54-56 (2009)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 370 Mb | Scans included | Time: 01:17:42
Genre: Classical, Chamber Music | Label: Naïve | # V 5200

Fans of the string quartets by Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, and Mendelssohn should by all means try this disc of string quartets by George Onslow. British-born and Bohemian-trained composer spent most of his career in France, and aside from their tonal language and their four-movement structure, his quartets have little in common with his German contemporaries. In fact, they have little in common with the music of his French contemporaries, who concentrated mostly on stage works. But in these overwhelming persuasive performances by the Quatuor Diotima, Onslow's quartets come across as fully formed, wholly confident, and enormously expressive works. There is tremendous power in the fast movements: the rip-roaring Scherzo, from his D minor Quartet, Op. 55; immense pathos in the slow movements: the heartbreaking Andante con variazioni from the E flat Quartet, Op. 54; and awesome intensity in the opening movements: the monumental Allegro maestoso ed espressivo from the C minor Quartet, Op. 56.

Quatuor Diotima, Sandrine Piau, Marie-Nicole Lemieux - Schoenberg, Webern, Berg: The String Quartet and the Voice (2010)

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Quatuor Diotima, Sandrine Piau, Marie-Nicole Lemieux - Schoenberg, Webern, Berg: The String Quartet and the Voice (2010)

Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern, Alban Berg - The String Quartet and the Voice (2010)
Quatuor Diotima, string quartet; Sandrine Piau, soprano; Marie-Nicole Lemieux, contralto

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 265 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 159 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Naive | # V 5240 | Time: 01:04:19

Recordings that include strings quartets by Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern are common, but an album that includes music for quartet and voice by each of them is a rarity. Schoenberg's Second String Quartet, with a part for soprano in its third and fourth movements, is standard repertoire, but the version of Berg's Lyric Suite with a vocal part in the final movement is highly unusual, and Webern's bagatelle with voice, an unpublished movement apparently once intended to be part of the Six Bagatelles, Op. 9, receives what is probably its first recording. Novelty aside, the high standards of these performances make this a formidable release. Founded just before the turn of the millennium, Quatuor Diotima plays with the assurance and mutual understanding of a seasoned ensemble. The quartet has a lean, clean sound and the ensemble is immaculate, playing with exquisite expressiveness, an ideal combination for this repertoire.

Quatuor Diotima - Posadas: Liturgia Fractal (2009)

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Quatuor Diotima - Posadas: Liturgia Fractal (2009)

Quatuor Diotima - Posadas: Liturgia Fractal (2009)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 266 MB | 52:12
Genre: Classical | Label: Kairos

This new work by Spanish composer Alberto Posadas, composed from 2003 to 2007, is not a collection of string quartets, but rather a cycle of five quartets, meant to be performed as a whole with only brief pauses punctuating the parts, 52 minutes in all. It is performed here with energy and precision by the Quatuor Diotima, and recorded in January 2009 for Kairos.