New Album Releases: METAMORPHOSIS LIGETI (Quatuor Diotima)

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Artist:
Quatuor Diotima

Genre:
Classical

Total Time:
53:44

Record Label:
Pentatone

Purchasing Links:
CD, MP3, Apple Music

Release Date
March 3, 2023




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Product Description: 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. The members of Diotima long postponed recording Ligeti's string quartets, intimidated by their significance in music history and the demands they place on the players, but now the time has come to pursue this fascinating project and share it with the world. The quartet is fascinated by the cinematic qualities of Ligeti's music and it's use in films, including Stanley Kubrick's 2001 A Space Odyssey. The album cover pays homage to that iconic movie. Quatuor Diotima is one the most in-demand chamber ensembles in the world today, and has worked in close collaboration with several of the greatest composers of the late twentieth century. Reflected in the mirror of today's music, the quartet projects a new light onto the masterpieces of the 19th and 20th centuries.

TRACK LIST:

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1 . String Quartet No. 1, "métamorphoses nocturnes": I. Allegro grazioso (01:29)

2 . String Quartet No. 1, "métamorphoses nocturnes": Ii. Vivace, capriccioso (01:52)

3 . String Quartet No. 1, "métamorphoses nocturnes": Iii. Adagio, mesto (02:13)

4 . String Quartet No. 1, "métamorphoses nocturnes": Iv. Presto (01:09)

5 . String Quartet No. 1, "métamorphoses nocturnes": V. Prestissimo (01:24)

6 . String Quartet No. 1, "métamorphoses nocturnes": Vi. Andante tranquillo (03:13)

7 . String Quartet No. 1, "métamorphoses nocturnes": Vii. Tempo di Valse, moderato, con eleganza, un poco capriccioso (00:53)

8 . String Quartet No. 1, "métamorphoses nocturnes": Viii. Subito prestissimo (01:32)

9 . String Quartet No. 1, "métamorphoses nocturnes": Ix. Allegretto, un poco giovale (00:55)

10 . String Quartet No. 1, "métamorphoses nocturnes": X. Poco più mosso (01:41)

11 . String Quartet No. 1, "métamorphoses nocturnes": Xi. Prestissimo (01:34)

12 . String Quartet No. 1, "métamorphoses nocturnes": Xii. Ad libitum, senza misura (03:15)

13 . Andante and Allegretto for String Quartet: I. Andante cantabile (06:29)

14 . Andante and Allegretto for String Quartet: Ii. Allegretto poco capriccioso (06:42)

15 . String Quartet No. 2: I. Allegro nervoso (04:41)

16 . String Quartet No. 2: Ii. Sostenuto, molto calmo (04:42)

17 . String Quartet No. 2: Iii. Come un meccanismo di precisione (03:14)

18 . String Quartet No. 2: Iv. Presto furioso, brutale, tumultuoso (01:57)

19 .String Quartet No. 2: V. Allegro con delicatezza (04:58)

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