Dudok Quartet Amsterdam

Dudok Quartet Amsterdam – What Remains (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:06:11 minutes | 1,21 GB | Genre: Classical
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The title What Remains of String Quartet No. 4 (2019) by Joey Roukens can be understood in various ways. On a poetic level, the words correspond to the character of the music, which often seems to hark back to ‘something remaining’ from a previous era – ruins, ghosts, scraps or memories. This interpretation, both of the words and of the music itself, marked the beginning of the associative exploration that led to this album of the same title. A fascinatingly curated programme from the Dudok, drawing on music from the 13th, 14th and 16th centuries, with 20th century works by Messiaen and Reich, and into the 21st century with the work that provides the album’s title, the 4th String Quartet by Roukens, commissioned by the Dudok Quartet. Both Reich and Roukens’ music was influenced by Gregorian chant, and the early organum and polyphonic music that followed. Time, travel, locomotion – journeys through time and the memories of these journeys all come together on this thrilling new album from the Dudok Quartet, Amsterdam.

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Dudok Quartet Amsterdam – Shostakovich & Bacewicz: Reflections (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:07 minutes | 1,04 GB | Genre: Classical
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“As a string quartet of the 21st Century, we are searching for the meaning of the music we perform. Our goal is to convey the image which emanates from the music in the most authentic way. As a kind of time-transcending minstrel, the Quartet is continuously searching for the best ways to reflect the music from the past, with a new meaning and for a contemporary audience” – Dudok Quartet, Amsterdam

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Dudok Quartet Amsterdam – Solitude: Mendelssohn, Weinberg & Shostakovich (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 54:37 minutes | 975 MB | Genre: Classical
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For their third album for the Resonus Classics label, the acclaimed Dudok Quartet Amsterdam releases a new recording based around the theme of solitude. Recently announced as recipients of a prestigious Borletti-Buitoni Award for 2018, the quartet presents a varied programme inspired by loss and feelings of loneliness, such as Mendelssohn’s Op. 80 ‘Requiem for Fanny’ and music by the isolated Soviet composers, Shostakovich and Weinberg who both sacrificed much in pursuit of their art.

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Dudok Quartet Amsterdam – Haydn: String Quartets, Op. 20, Volume 2, Nos. 1, 4 & 6 (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:06:14 minutes | 1,10 GB | Genre: Classical
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Following their acclaimed first instalment of Franz Joseph Haydn’s six Op. 20 string quartets, the Dudok Quartet Amsterdam returns with the remainder of the works from this hugely significant collection – the E-flat major, D major and A major quartets.

Earning Haydn the title of the ‘father of the string quartet’, these works are said to have defined the medium for the next 200 years. It is in his lauded Op. 20, where Haydn connects old and new worlds and creates an all-encompassing universe.

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Dudok Quartet Amsterdam – Haydn: String Quartets, Op. 20, Volume 1, Nos. 2, 3 & 5 (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:21 minutes | 1,11 GB | Genre: Classical
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The Dudok Quartet Amsterdam is forging a reputation as one of the most creative and versatile young quartets of its generation. With its mission of “sharing the heart of music”, the Dudok Quartet is committed to crafting unique and eclectic programmes in order to engage with its audiences in new and imaginative ways. Fresh from their latest accolade as winners of a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award, the Dudok Quartet Amsterdam embarks on a new project for Resonus Classics recording Franz Joseph Haydn’s six Op. 20 string quartets. This first installment of two volumes sees the quartet explore the C major, G minor and F minor quartets. With some of the most celebrated works from the quartet repertoire, the Dudok Quartet relish delving into the monumental and dramatic gestures within Haydn’s highly developed rhetorical style.

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Dudok Quartet Amsterdam – Brahms: The String Quartets & String Quintet No. 2 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:08:54 minutes | 2,22 GB | Genre: Classical
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The Dudok Quartet Amsterdam is forging a reputation as one of the most creative and versatile quartets of its generation. The Guardian commented on their “lithe, lively sound and alert sense of structure and detail”. This recording, their first for Rubicon, of the Brahms Quartets and the second of the String Quintets for which they are joined by Finnish violist Lilli Maijala, will be eagerly awaited by their growing band of followers and chamber music fans generally. The quartet play with unwound gut strings and a set of bespoke classical bows.

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