Caroline Shaw & Attacca Quartet – Caroline Shaw: Evergreen (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Caroline Shaw & Attacca Quartet – Caroline Shaw: Evergreen (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:47 minutes | 1,05 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Nonesuch Records Inc.

Following 2019’s Orange, which featured six of Shaw’s pieces for string quartet and earned a Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance, Evergreen was built around the titular four-song suite, commissioned and first performed by Third Angle in March 2020. Shaw describes the work as an offering to one particular tree in an evergreen forest on Swiikw (Galiano Island), off the west coast of Canada.

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Attacca Quartet, Jeanne Golan – Weinberg: Piano Quintet, Piano Sonatina & Cello Sonata No. 2 (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

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Attacca Quartet, Jeanne Golan – Weinberg: Piano Quintet, Piano Sonatina & Cello Sonata No. 2 (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:16:44 minutes | 2,33 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Steinway and Sons

Mieczyslaw Weinberg, a composer beginning to be known outside Russia, found a home in music during a life full of persecution, exile, and upheaval. Pianist Jeanne Golan, cellist Andrew Yee, and the Attacca Quartet give passionate performances of three Weinberg works: the Piano Quintet Op. 18, the Cello Sonata Op. 63 No. 2, and the Sonatine for Piano, Op. 49, on their new recording for the Steinway & Sons label (STNS 30072).
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Attacca Quartet – Real Life (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Attacca Quartet – Real Life (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 31:13 minutes | 623 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sony Classical

Sony Classical announce the exclusive signing of the bold, multi-genre, Grammy Award-winning string ensemble, ATTACCA QUARTET, with the release of two albums this year that embody their redefinition of what a string quartet can be. Real Life, a vibrant album that transcends musical boundaries, is out July 9th and available now for preorder. The group’s momentum will continue well into 2021, lining up a second album later this year featuring music by Philip Glass, Arvo Pärt as well as several Renaissance composers – details coming soon.

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Attacca Quartet – Of All Joys (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Attacca Quartet – Of All Joys (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:12 minutes | 1,10 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sony Classical

“Of All Joys” – the new record from the Grammy Award-winning string ensemble – is their attempt to recapture all that, and to revel in the beauty and wonder of great works from both the minimalist and Renaissance eras. “Ultimately,” says cellist Andrew Yee, “it is about the joy of coming together and making something that is more beautiful than you can make yourself.”

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Attacca Quartet – Caroline Shaw: Orange (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Attacca Quartet – Caroline Shaw: Orange (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:42 minutes | 1,06 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © New Amsterdam – Nonesuch

Orange, which features six of Shaw’s pieces for string quartet, is the first full-length album to exclusively feature works by Shaw. It is also the first release in a new partnership between the two record labels, established with the goal of enabling contemporary American composers to realize creative ambitions that might not otherwise be achievable.

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