Nordic String Quartet – Peter Heise: String Quartets Vol. 1 (2023)
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Between 1851 and 1857, Peter Heise wrote six string quartets for the intimate musical soirees of Copenhagen’s upper class. Heise was a celebrated and esteemed composer in his native Denmark, but his quartets were sadly forgotten. In the first of its two-part series, the Nordic String Quartet revives these elegantly flowing works with a generous and lyrical approach, infusing a sensibility attuned to Heise’s distinctive poetic touch.
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Nordic String Quartet – Gudmundsen-Holmgreen: Complete String Quartets, Vol. 1 (2019)
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Danish composer Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen (1932–2016) wrote string quartets all his life. Fourteen in all; the first three dating from 1959, the last ones from 2013. Launching its complete cycle of Gudmundsen-Holmgreen’s string quartets, the Nordic String Quartet here presents the first six quartets: Honesty meets schoolboy pranks, obstinacy meets doubt, yes meets no – Gudmundsen-Holmgreen’s string quartets are full of such clashes. We start at one point and end at a totally different one. Never fusty, often entertaining, always adamant.
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