Prism V - Beethoven, Webern, Bach
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Release Date: 14 April 2023
Label: ECM New Series
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 028948584697
Genres: Classical  Chamber Music  
Release Date: 14 April 2023
Label: ECM New Series
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 028948584697
Genres: Classical  Chamber Music  
Description
The Danish String Quartet bring their highly acclaimed Prism project to its conclusion.
In each volume of this series a particular Bach fugue is connected to a late Beethoven quartet which, in turn, is connected to a quartet by a later master: "A beam of music is split through Beethoven's prism," in the Danes' words. "The whole approach invites active, committed listening," The Guardian observed. "The group plays with virtuosity, intensity and tenderness."
The project has been eight years in the making. Now on the fifth and final volume, Johann Sebastian Bach's chorale prelude Vor deinen Thron tret ich hiermit "opens up like a flower" (as Paul Griffiths writes in the liner notes) to preface Ludwig van Beethoven's String Quartet No. 16 in F major. Anton Webern's early String Quartet, composed in 1905 - and inspired both by Beethoven and Schoenberg - follows, and the programme returns to Bach with Contrapunctus 14 from The Art of the Fugue.
Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen: violin
Frederik Øland: violin
Asbjørn Nørgaard: viola
Fredrik Schøyen Sjölin: cello
Tracklisting
Anna Gourari, Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana & Markus Poschner
Gidon Kremer, Kremerata Baltica & Vida Mikneviciute
Arvo Part
Thomas Larcher
John Holloway Ensemble
Heinz Holliger & Anton Kernjak
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Tallinn Chamber Orchestra & Tonu Kaljuste
Karlheinz Stockhausen Michaels Reise
Danish String Quartet
Danish String Quartet
Danish String Quartet
Danish String Quartet
Danish String Quartet
Danish String Quartet
Danish String Quartet