Quartet Gerhard – Harmonia Nova #4 – Schumann, Kurtag & Berg: String Quartets (2017) [Qobuz FLAC 24bit/88,2kHz]

Quartet Gerhard – Harmonia Nova #4 – Schumann, Kurtág & Berg: String Quartets (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:07:54 minutes | 1,09 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: Qobuz | Booklet, Front Cover | © harmonia mundi

‘Our quartet is a story of friendship. We know each other since our childhood and we always have shared the passion for playing music and learning.

That decided us one day, around six years ago, to make playing quartets the main endeavour of our lives – because our common ardour was strong and because the differences between our personalities make our music making more vivid.

Robert Gerhard was a Catalan composer – he was born in Valls, which is very near our birth place in Catalunya – and he was a pupil of Schoenberg at the beginning of the XXth century. Thanks to Gerhard, people like Webern, or Schoenberg himself, were visiting Barcelona very often. One can read in their correspondence how amazed they were about the city and the culture at that time, just before the civil war and fascism killed any progress in Spain.

That’s why we took the name of Gerhard, because he was a resolute man; he joined the avantgarde movement of that time and he fought for his idea of music in a way we identify with.’

Tracklist:

Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
String Quartet No. 3 in A Major, Op. 41 No. 3
1 | I. Andante espressivo. Allegro molto moderato 00:07:10
2 | II. Assai agitato 00:06:10
3 | III. Adagio molto 00:07:35
4 | IV. Finale. Allegro molto vivace 00:07:01

György Kurtág (1926)
Officium breve in memoriam Andreæ Szervánszky, Op. 28
11 | I. Largo (In memoriam Tibor Turcsányi) 00:00:19
12 | II. Più andante (In memoriam Zsolt Baranyay) 00:00:40
13 | III. Sostenuto, quasi giusto 00:00:45
14 | IV. Grave, molto sostenuto 00:00:36
15 | V. Presto (Fantasie über die Harmonien des Webern-Kanons) 00:00:42
16 | VI. Molto agitato (Canon a 4) 00:00:17
17 | VII. Sehr fließend [Canon a 2 (frei nach op. 31/VI von Webern)] 00:00:32
18 | VIII. Lento (In memoriam Gabriella Garzó ) 00:00:32
19 | IX. Largo 00:00:50
20 | X. Sehr fließend (Webern : Kanon a 4, op.31/VI) 00:01:41
21 | XI. Sostenuto (In memoriam György Szoltsányi) 00:01:39
22 | XII. Sostenuto, quasi giusto 00:00:44
23 | XIII. Sostenuto, con slancio 00:00:48
24 | XIV. Dispertao, vivo 00:00:43
25 | XV. Larghetto [Arioso interrotto (di Endre Szervánszky)] 00:01:24

Quartet Gerhard:
Lluís Castan Cochs, violin
Judit Bardolet Vilaro, violin
Miquel Jordà Saún, viola
Jesús Miralles Roger, cello

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