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Widmann : Quatuors à cordes. Quatuor Minguet.
Diapason from January 2016
Review de Gérard Condé
Page No. 98
Format : 2 CD
Total Time : 01:30:47

Recording : 16/01-26/04/2014
Location : Cologne
Country : Allemagne
Sound : Stereo

Label : Wergo
Catalog No. : WER7316
EAN : 4010228731620

Publishing Year : 2015
Release Date : 09/09/2015

Genre : Classical
Jörg Widmann (1973-)
1. Streichquartett
Choralquartett, 2. Streichquartett
Jagdquartett, 3. Steichquartett
4. Streichquartett
Versuch über die fuge, 5. Streichquartett mit Sopran
Streichquartett aus der Oper "Absences"
180 Beats per minute, pour sextuor à cordes

Claron McFadden, soprano
Alexander Hülshoff, violoncelle
Andrei Simion, violoncelle
Quatuor Minguet
Ulrich Isfort, violon
Annette Reisinger, violon
Aroa Sorin, alto
Matthias Diener, violoncelle

The composer Jörg Widmann is also a gifted and sought-after clarinettist, a virtuoso who embodies something that today cannot be taken for granted. As a practising musician, he is constantly dealing with musical tradition. It is therefore only natural that this experience influences his composing. However, he does not attempt to simply cultivate a tradition or even continue it unchanged; instead, he calls it into question in a radical way. When in many of his pieces “traditional” tonal materials encounter an arsenal of newly developed playing techniques and noise-like sounds, this is not simply an expansion of compositional materials or just bald opposition. Rather, the relationship between the musical elements, whether historical or contemporary, is defined anew in each piece. This particularly applies to the string quartet. Very few composers dealing with this genre in recent times have been able to completely ignore its overpowering tradition. Widmann, however, has not only examined the string quartet, he has also taken up certain classical types of movements – a different one in each quartet. In this way, he prolonged his involvement with the genre over a period of eight years with a series of five quartets, which, though they are independent pieces, can also be viewed as a large work in five movements. The cycle of the five string quartets is juxtaposed with two early works by Widmann: As early as 1990, he wrote a short movement for string quartet as part of his school opera “Absences” (revised in 1993). The string sextet “180 Beats per Minute” (1993) – the title comes from the piece’s tempo indication – is inspired by the fast pulses of techno music.

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