Brentano String Quartet

Brentano String Quartet – Angelo Badalamenti, Beethoven: A Late Quartet (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:16:19 minutes | 1,39 GB | Genre: Soundtrack, Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Decca Records

A Late Quartet, directed, written and produced by Yaron Zilberman, tells the story of a world-renowned New York-based string quartet whose members struggle to stay together on the eve of their 25th anniversary season. The film stars Philip Seymour Hoffman, Christopher Walken, Catherine Keener, Mark Ivanir, and Imogen Poots. To achieve his musical and artistic vision, Zilberman collaborated with composer Angelo Badalamenti (Mullholland Drive) and the dynamic Brentano String Quartet. The internationally acclaimed, GRAMMY® Award-winning, mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter is featured on the recording and in the movie as well.
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Brentano String Quartet – Mozart: String Quartets Nos. 19 & 16, K. 465 & 428 (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:07 minutes | 1,10 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Azica Records

The Brentano Quartet, in their second release for Azica Records, present the Mozart String Quartets No. 19 in C Major, K. 465, Dissonance, and No. 16 in E Flat Major, K. 428. Since its inception in 1992, the Brentano String Quartet has appeared throughout the world to popular and critical acclaim. Passionate, uninhibited and spellbinding, raves the London Independent; the New York Times extols its luxuriously warm sound [and] yearning lyricism; the Philadelphia Inquirer praises its seemingly infallible instincts for finding the center of gravity in every phrase and musical gesture; and the Times (London) opines, the Brentanos are a magnificent string quartetThis was wonderful, selfless music-making. Within a few years of its formation, the Quartet garnered the first Cleveland Quartet Award and the Naumburg Chamber Music Award; and in 1996 the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center invited them to be the inaugural members of Chamber Music Society Two, a program which was to become a coveted distinction for chamber groups and individuals. The Quartet had its first European tour in 1997, and was honored in the U.K. with the Royal Philharmonic Award for Most Outstanding Debut. That debut recital was at Londons Wigmore Hall, and the Quartet has continued its warm relationship with Wigmore, appearing there regularly and serving as the halls Quartet-in-residence in the 2000-01 season.
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Brentano String Quartet – Beethoven: Late String Quartets, Op. 130 & Grosse Fuge, Op. 133 (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:38 minutes | 1,06 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Aeon

The Brentano Quartet delivers the third volume of Beethoven’s Late Quartets for æon, this disc featuring Op. 130 and 133. The relation between form and language seems to haunt all the writing of his Quartet in B flat major. Indeed, the composer struggles with the enigmatic question of our intimate experience in relation to music and the sense of musical composition.
On the other hand, in the Grosse Fuge, Op. 133, Beethoven the visionary proclaims his unshakeable faith in a world like a will facing menace and chaos. The pertinence of the struggle marks the structure and character of every page of the quartet, one of the composer’s most inspired. Impossible not to be impressed by the sharpness of the stroke, the clarity of the discourse and the intensity of the affects. Brilliant virtuosos, the superb mastery of the Brentanos has made them famous and displays its full power in the release of this final volume.
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