Peter Kolkay & Calidore String Quartet – Red Maple: Music for Bassoon and Strings (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Peter Kolkay & Calidore String Quartet – Red Maple: Music for Bassoon and Strings (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 56:40 minutes | 1,02 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Bridge Records

Peter Kolkay’s new recording of music for bassoon and strings, Red Maple, takes its title from a work that Joan Tower wrote for Kolkay in 2013. Tower’s piece is joined by fellow American composer Russell Platt’s Quintet, completed in 1997. Two UK composers round out the program, with English composer Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Massarosa (2018) (another Kolkay dedication) and the Scottish composer Judith Weir’s Wake Your Wild Voice (2008), a duo for bassoon and cello. Peter Kolkay holds a distinguished place in the American music scene as the only bassoonist to have won the coveted Avery Fisher Career Award, and as an artist of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. He is joined on the recording by the distinguished Calidore String Quartet, currently quartet in residence with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.

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Calidore String Quartet – Resilience (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Calidore String Quartet – Resilience (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:20:47 minutes | 1,42 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Signum Records

In a world of dissonance and conflict combined with omnipresent media reporting, the unrelenting noise of social and political discord seems to be ever increasing. But the power of creativity inherent in music can provide balm and respite. This is the strong belief of the young players of the celebrated Calidore String Quartet and is their motivation for selecting this compelling repertoire for Resilience, their debut CD on Signum Records to be released worldwide on October 12.

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Calidore String Quartet – Babel (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Calidore String Quartet – Babel (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:42 minutes | 1,27 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Signum Records

Robert Schumann (1810-1856), Caroline Shaw (1982), Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)

A compilation of quartets by Schumann, Shostakovich and Caroline Shaw from the acclaimed American string quartet, Calidore String Quartet, exploring the visceral forms of expression that exist at the intersection of music and language. For this recording the Calidore String Quartet gathered music which transmits ideas by imitating language; its rhythms, cadences and intentions. But it also explores what happens when music substitutes for language. When it fills the void of forbidden speech or even how it carries on when language has been exhausted.

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