The Young Danish String Quartet – Carl Nielsen: String Quartets Vol.1 (2007) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

The Young Danish String Quartet – Carl Nielsen: String Quartets Vol.1 (2007)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 77:42 minutes | 1,64 GB | Genre: Classical
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Carl Nielsen took Danish music into the 20th century, and his chamber music has a prominent position in the international repertoire. In spite of this Carl Nielsen only composed a limited number of chamber works for strings. This CD features two of his string quartets (in G minor and G major) and the only string quintet (in G major) he ever composed. All three works played a central role in Carl Nielsen’s musical career, since they were major successes for the debuting composer and contributed to his initial breakthrough.

The members of the Young Danish String Quartet met at a music camp in rural Denmark. In 2001, with a push from Tim Frederiksen, a professor at the conservatory in Copenhagen, they officially formed the quartet while still in their teens.

Since then competition victories and successful tours have brought the quartet deserved attention. And no member is yet over 25, so the statute of limitations on the qualifier ”young” in its name has a ways to run.

A new recording of two string quartets and the String Quintet by Carl Nielsen confirms the strong impression the group made in two New York concerts over the last few years. These are youthful and energetic performances. And the maturity and authority of the playing suggest that national identity matters. These young Danes seem to have genuine insight into the music of their country’s best-known composer.

Nielsen, who died in 1931 at 66, is generally consigned to those turn-of-the-century composers who resisted the radical upheavals epitomized by Schoenberg and Stravinsky. Actually, in his way Nielsen was a free spirit who protested against what he called the ”Danish smoothing over” in style. He introduced spiky harmony, roaming tonality and unhinged rhythms into his strongly personal and often searching works.

Even in the early Neo-Classical Quartet in G minor the music has an obsessive streak, especially in the restless scherzo. The Quartet in F, composed in 1906 and revised in 1919, while also essentially Neo-Classical, abounds with intriguing oddities: passages of aimless yet haunting harmony and outbursts of splattering counterpoint.
For the early String Quintet in G minor, an elegant work with a bittersweet Adagio, the young players are joined by their mentor, Mr. Frederiksen. Clearly they were not too intimidated by his presence: Mr. Frederiksen plays the second viola part.

Tracklist:
01 – String Quartet in G minor, Op.13 – I. Allegro energico
02 – String Quartet in G minor, Op.13 – II. Andante amoroso
03 – String Quartet in G minor, Op.13 – III. Scherzo: Allegro molto
04 – String Quartet in G minor, Op.13 – IV. Finale: Allegro (inquieto)
05 – String Quartet in F major, Op.44 – I. Allegro non tanto e comodo
06 – String Quartet in F major, Op.44 – II. Adagio con sentimento religioso
07 – String Quartet in F major, Op.44 – III. Allegretto moderato ed innocente
08 – String Quartet in F major, Op.44 – IV. Finale: Molto adagio – Allegro non tanto, ma molto scherzoso
09 – String Quintet in G major – I. Allegro pastorale
10 – String Quintet in G major – II. Adagio
11 – String Quintet in G major – III. Allegretto scherzando
12 – String Quintet in G major – IV. Finale: Allegro molto

Recorded at Danish Radio Concert Hall on 27-31 July, 11-13 and 19-20 August 2006.

Musicians:
Rune Sørensen, violin (1st in String Quintet)
Frederik Øland, violin (1st in op. 13 and op. 44)
Asbjørn Nørgaard, viola (1st in String Quintet)
Tim Frederiksen, viola (String Quintet in G major)
Carl-Oscar Østerlind, cello

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