Nyman - String Quartets 5 & 4 2018

Nyman - String Quartets 5 & 4 [Chamber Music, Vol. III]

Жанр: Classical chamber
Страна-производитель диска: Made in Poland
Год издания диска: 2018
Издатель (лейбл): Michael Nyman Records
Номер по каталогу: MNRCD141
Дата записи: 2017
Аудиокодек: FLAC
Тип рипа: image+.cue
Битрейт аудио: (lossy + lossless)
Продолжительность: 01:05:05
Источник: релизер
-источник/ник/другое: Bodtje, подарок; Caterina Sforza - доп. сканы
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Треклист:
String Quartet 5:

01. I [0:03:18.59]

02. II [0:03:45.66]

03. III [0:03:20.67]

04. IV [0:03:15.32]

05. V [0:04:21.46]

06. VI [0:04:36.32]
String Quartet 4:

07. I [0:03:19.47]

08. II [0:03:32.52]

09. III [0:02:28.10]

10. IV [0:06:16.38]

11. V [0:03:26.24]

12. VI [0:04:08.69]

13. VII [0:04:00.64]

14. VIII [0:02:29.46]

15. IX [0:04:26.09]

16. X [0:02:47.41]

17. XI [0:02:47.19]

18. XII [0:02:52.47]

Исполнители

Michael Nyman (born 1944)
String Quartets 5 & 4
Chamber Music Vol. III
String Quartet No. 5
String Quartet No. 4
[u]The Smith Quartet[/u]:
Ian Humphries (violin)
Rick Koster (violin)
Nic Pendlebury (viola)
Deirdre Cooper (cello)
Recording Location: Angel Studios (Studio 1)
Original Release Date: February 23, 2018
Release Date: March 2, 2018

Review

AllMusic Review by James Manheim [-]
Michael Nyman has emerged as the U.K.'s top minimalist, with a style that certainly drew inspiration from American composers but has become increasingly personal. Where a Glass or a Reich tends toward the monumental and the abstract, Nyman is more intimate and admits a touch of sentiment. He also retains classical movement contrasts even as individual movements are mostly concerned with texture and have only a vague tonal center. For some reason, Nyman has tended to focus on the reuse of preexisting material in the string quartet medium, and that's the case with the String Quartet No. 4, based on a solo violin piece called Yamamoto Perpetuo (composed for violinist Yohji Yamamoto). This work retains the original solo violin part intact and furnishes accompaniments for it. It may be intriguing for those who know the original work, but it tends to diminish the most appealing aspect of Nyman's music: his big, simple contrasts that do not come off as trite or derivative. This is what you get in the six-movement String Quartet No. 5 of 2011, which has the subtitle 'Let's not make a song and dance out of this.' As this suggests, the work hovers between melodic and dancelike movements without alighting on either of those configurations. It's consistently absorbing, and you could sample the dual-section movements for an idea. The Smith Quartet has a good deal of experience not only with Nyman, but with a wide range of new music in Britain, and they are ideal interpreters. Strong studio sound from Nyman's own MN label, finished off by Abbey Road mixing, is another draw. Recommended.