Quatuor Diotima

Quatuor Diotima – Gervasoni, Pesson, Poppe (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 03:03:26 minutes | 1,76 GB | Genre: Classical
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The evolution of classical music in the last quarter of the 20th century has often been described as that from an era marked by structure moving to one that seeks its inspiration in sound. It is not only the quest for novel and striking timbres – similar to the quest for new harmonic or rhythmic systems – but also the notion of sound as a model of structure. Sound as a world of its own, which one can enter and analyse on a computer, seems to be made up of internal processes, of thresholds, of infi nite transitions between sound and noise, which spectral music for example takes as its source of inspiration. Another pathway was cleared by Helmut Lachenmann, who had a profound infl uence on Stefano Gervasoni and Gérard Pesson in their early careers, with his conception of a “musique concrète instrumentale”: with unconventional playing techniques (the instrument is played from all angles, it is used for percussion, with new techniques, blowing, rubbing, scraping, etc.) the classical sound – which Lachenmann called “philharmonic” – becomes the exception. Finally, the emergence of “sound arts” has become an omnipresent background or an “other” of classical writing; the visual arts have taken possession of sound; the fascination it exerts makes it a fetish of our time.
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Quatuor Diotima – Mauricio Sotelo (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:00:29 minutes | 560 MB | Genre: Classical
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Following on Quatuor Diotima’s first excursion into Spanish territory (their 2017 recording of music by Alberto Posadas) this new single-composer addition to its discography shows what remarkable diversity may exist among contemporary composers of the same nationality and generation.
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Quatuor Diotima – Conrado del Campo: String Quartets Nos. 3 & 5 (Live at the Fundación Juan March) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:16:16 minutes | 770 MB | Genre: Classical
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Thr Album features the world premiere recordings of String Quartets Nos. 3 and 5 (six-movement version) by Conrado del Campo (1878-1953), one of the most original but least well-known Spanish composers of the first half of the twentieth century. The concert was part of the Proyecto Conrado, which involves programming the first complete cycle of his thirteen string quartets. This will go hand in hand with the publication of a complete edition of the scores, most of which have never been published, and the release of recordings of the quartets (in various formats). The aim of this ambitious initiative is to rescue a significant body of works from the undeserved neglect into which it has fallen.
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