Utrecht String Quartet – String Quartets From The Twenties (2001)

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Utrecht String Quartet – String Quartets From The Twenties (2001)
Classical/Early 20th Century | FLAC lossless | cuesheets+log | covers+booklet | 60m | 279mb
Label: NM Extra | cat. no. 98020


About Bernard van Dieren:

It was late April 1936 when a leading British newspaper carried the headline 'London's Mystery Man of Music Dies'. Just less than ten years earlier Willem Pijper wrote in similar terms about a composer he described as 'cloaked in a shroud of secrecy'. The mystery man in question was the Dutch-born composer and publicist Bernard van Dieren (1887-1936), who had, according to Pijper, become an 'Englishman in sensibility and thought' as a result of his emigration to London around the turn of the century. 'Mysterious' applied particularly to the biographical circumstances which surrounded Bernard van Dieren his entire life, as the son of a Dutch father and a French mother. He was more intriguing for his widely-admired intellectual acuity and his photographic memory and for the impressive array of literary figures, artists and fellow composers and musicians who were devoted to him. Born and raised in Rotterdam, Bernard van Dieren was a late convert to music at the age of twenty. His first collections of songs still clearly inhabit the idiomatic shadow of Brahms and Wolf. It is the music he composed after around 1910 which let us hear Van Dieren as an independent spirit. He created personal scores with a tendency towards modernism (distantly influenced by Schonberg) with a textual complexity (comparable with Busoni) which engages the imagination, particularly in his chamber music

and about Henriette Bosmans:

Henriette Bosmans was born into an extremely stimulating musical environment. Her father Henri was the solo cellist with the Concertgebouw Orchestra; her mother Sara Benedicts taught piano at the Amsterdam conservatory. It was she who gave Henriette her thorough instrumental training. She soon showed significant talent as a soloist, playing under the prominent Dutch conductors Willem Mengelberg, Eduard van Beinum, and Willem van Otterloo, as well as foreign greats like Pierre Monteux and Ernest Ansermet. As a composer, Henriette Bos mans also proved herself a natural talent, although her earlier efforts were rather 'backwards-looking'. Pijper once remarked that: 'Her grasp of form remained tied too strongly to a musical sensibility fixed in her youth. And this is her strength, at least until yesterday, but her weakness for the future.' Willem Piper would personally lead her in a new direction. From 1927 to 1930 Bosmans studied under Pijper, who encouraged her to experiment with the simultaneous use of multiple keys and of multiple rhythms, polytonality and polyrhythm. The latter approach is clearly present in Bosmans’ only string quartet, with its impressionistic opening, a middle section with occasional exotic tints and its polyrhythmic finale. Bosmans' quartet dates from 1927. It was dedicated.- unsurprisingly - to
Willem Pijper and premiered by the Amsterdamsch Strijkkwartet on January 28 1928 in the Amsterdam Concertgebouw.

Tracks:

01. Van Dieren - String Quartet No. 6 - I. Energico [0:09:53.82]
02. Van Dieren - String Quartet No. 6 - II. Cantabile [0:06:52.53]
03. Van Dieren - String Quartet No. 6 - III. Furioso [0:09:11.93]
04. Bosmans - String Quartet - I. Allegro molto moderato [0:04:01.53]
05. Bosmans - String Quartet - II. Lento [0:04:09.26]
06. Bosmans - String Quartet - III. Allegro molto [0:03:41.84]
07. Mosolov - String Quartet No. 1, Op. 24 - I. Andante non troppo - Allegro [0:09:59.36]
08. Mosolov - String Quartet No. 1, Op. 24 - II. Adagio - Tempo di Gavotta [0:04:44.30]
09. Mosolov - String Quartet No. 1, Op. 24 - III. Scherzo. Vivace alla marcia [0:02:59.36]
10. Mosolov - String Quartet No. 1, Op. 24 - IV. Finale. Allegro molto, risoluto [0:04:34.44]

Performers:

The Utrecht String Quartet are:

Eeva Koskinen – violin
Katherine Routley – violin
Sven Arne Tepl – viola
Sebastion Koloski – violoncello

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