Quatuor Diotima – Gervasoni, Pesson, Poppe (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

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The evolution of classical music in the last quarter of the 20th century has often been described as that from an era marked by structure moving to one that seeks its inspiration in sound. It is not only the quest for novel and striking timbres – similar to the quest for new harmonic or rhythmic systems – but also the notion of sound as a model of structure. Sound as a world of its own, which one can enter and analyse on a computer, seems to be made up of internal processes, of thresholds, of infi nite transitions between sound and noise, which spectral music for example takes as its source of inspiration. Another pathway was cleared by Helmut Lachenmann, who had a profound infl uence on Stefano Gervasoni and Gérard Pesson in their early careers, with his conception of a “musique concrète instrumentale”: with unconventional playing techniques (the instrument is played from all angles, it is used for percussion, with new techniques, blowing, rubbing, scraping, etc.) the classical sound – which Lachenmann called “philharmonic” – becomes the exception. Finally, the emergence of “sound arts” has become an omnipresent background or an “other” of classical writing; the visual arts have taken possession of sound; the fascination it exerts makes it a fetish of our time.

Tracklist:

01. Quatuor Diotima – Clamour – Terzo quartetto per archi (24:04)
02. Quatuor Diotima – Six Lettres à l’obscurité (und zwei Nachrichten): No. 1, C (01:03)
03. Quatuor Diotima – Six Lettres à l’obscurité (und zwei Nachrichten): No. 2, L (03:07)
04. Quatuor Diotima – Six Lettres à l’obscurité (und zwei Nachrichten): No. 3, Erste Nachricht (04:43)
05. Quatuor Diotima – Six Lettres à l’obscurité (und zwei Nachrichten): No. 4, A (01:16)
06. Quatuor Diotima – Six Lettres à l’obscurité (und zwei Nachrichten): No. 5, I (…R) (03:28)
07. Quatuor Diotima – Six Lettres à l’obscurité (und zwei Nachrichten): No. 6, Zweite Nachricht (04:20)
08. Quatuor Diotima – Six Lettres à l’obscurité (und zwei Nachrichten): No. 7, R (06:37)
09. Quatuor Diotima – Six Lettres à l’obscurité (und zwei Nachrichten): No. 8, E… (02:38)
10. Quatuor Diotima – Strada non presa (18:55)
11. Quatuor Diotima – Respirez ne respirez plus (String Quartet No. 1) (09:54)
12. Quatuor Diotima – Bitume (String Quartet No. 2) (17:45)
13. Quatuor Diotima – Nebenstück (08:42)
14. Quatuor Diotima – Farrago (String Quartet No. 3) (23:41)
15. Quatuor Diotima – Buch: No. 1, Marcato (06:00)
16. Quatuor Diotima – Buch: No. 2, Viertel = 60 (08:20)
17. Quatuor Diotima – Buch: No. 3, Viertel = 108 (02:12)
18. Quatuor Diotima – Buch: No. 4, Viertel = 144 (03:35)
19. Quatuor Diotima – Buch: No. 5, Viertel = 50 (09:50)
20. Quatuor Diotima – Zwölf (03:57)
21. Quatuor Diotima – Tier (14:36)
22. Quatuor Diotima – Freizeit (04:33)