Quatuor Modigliani

Quatuor Modigliani – Quatuor Modigliani: Debussy, Saint Saëns, Ravel (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:24:45 minutes | 814 MB | Genre: Classical
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On the occasion of their tenth anniversary, the String Quartet Modigliani chose to record pieces by French composers. At the dawn of the twentieth century, Paris, more than any other city, experienced the metamorphosis of the arts into modern times. The vibrations of colours and light on the canvases of Monet, Seurat and their contemporaries were transmuted into sounds in the output of Debussy, whose Quartet opened the way to a new aesthetic. Ten years later Ravel was to crystallise its style, as if to follow Debussy’s conception through to its conclusion. Between these two jewels of the French repertoire, the First Quartet of Saint-Saëns is revealed as a tremendously appealing work, brimming with charm, humour, and elegance.
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Quatuor Modigliani – Dvorák, Bartók & Dohnányi: Quatuors à cordes (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:19:53 minutes | 1,35 GB | Genre: Classical
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After recording the great Romantics and the Classical splendors of Brahms and Haydn, and opening the gates of the twentieth century with Ravel and Debussy, the Modigliani Quartet now traces the connections between the Danube, the Vltava and the Mississippi. From old Europe to explorations of the New World, this program features the luminous string quartets of Dohnányi and Dvo ák alongside Bartók’s darker String Quartet No.2.
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Quatuor Modigliani – Haydn – Bartók – Mozart (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:18 minutes | 1,28 GB | Genre: Classical
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Revered since the height of the Classical era up to the simmering years of the 20th century, the string quartet represented an ideal genre to which composers entrusted their most innovative ideas. The Modigliani Quartet illuminates these brillant masterpieces, each bearing witness to a turning point in the lives of their authors. Brimming with poetry, audacity and a thirst for life, the singular narratives of these quartets herald the advent of new horizons.
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Quatuor Modigliani – Haydn: Quartets, Op. 76 No. 1; Op. 50 No. 1; Op. 77 No. 1 (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:04:03 minutes | 592 MB | Genre: Classical
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The motto of the Modigliani Quartet, founded in Paris in 2003, is taken from the artist whose name they borrowed: “Your true duty is to save your dream.” Haydn deserves nothing less. The father of the string quartet wrote 68 works in the form. The Modiglianis have chosen three, from the great sets Op 50, Op 76 and Op 77. It may strike us as an arbitrary selection. Why these, and what will come next? But if you want to try out Haydn this is a representative starting point: the wit, ingenuity, laughter and gravitas come through in these occasionally rough-hewn but buoyant performances.
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Quatuor Modigliani – Schubert: The String Quartets (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 06:18:06 minutes | 11,43 GB | Genre: Classical
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As a young chorister, the fourteen-year-old Franz Schubert penned his first string quartets, a genre that he would continue to explore until the last years of his life.

Fifteen quartets, of remarkable originality and bewitching lyricism, entered into history, bearing at once the legacy of the Classical Era and a vision of the future.

These works are marked by the tides of life – disillusion, illness, but also the flourishing of a magisterial mind.

“The communion with a confidential soul, the discovery of indescribable colours, the admiration of a remarkable message whose ideas never cease to evolve and inspire… This is part of a distinctive journey that will leave an everlasting mark upon us. The recording of the Octet two years ago was just the initial building block of a project dear to us, one that we now see fulfilled through this immersion.
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Quatuor Modigliani – Schubert: The String Quartets (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 06:18:06 minutes | 11,43 GB | Genre: Classical
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As a young chorister, the fourteen-year-old Franz Schubert penned his first string quartets, a genre that he would continue to explore until the last years of his life.

Fifteen quartets, of remarkable originality and bewitching lyricism, entered into history, bearing at once the legacy of the Classical Era and a vision of the future.

These works are marked by the tides of life – disillusion, illness, but also the flourishing of a magisterial mind.

“The communion with a confidential soul, the discovery of indescribable colours, the admiration of a remarkable message whose ideas never cease to evolve and inspire… This is part of a distinctive journey that will leave an everlasting mark upon us. The recording of the Octet two years ago was just the initial building block of a project dear to us, one that we now see fulfilled through this immersion.
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Quatuor Modigliani – QPortraits (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:04:33 minutes | 1,10 GB | Genre: Classical
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Modigliani, one of the greatest portrait painters, is the inspiration for this journey made up of pieces with unique characters. Designed as a portrait gallery, this new opus brings together masterpieces and discoveries. The look or hear the ear, linger on the curves, the lines, the singular melodic drawing of each of these partitions. Filigree is another portrait, that of the quartet.
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Quatuor Modigliani – Schumann: String Quartets Op. 41 (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:18:23 minutes | 1,39 GB | Genre: Classical
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It’s in a small comic filled with self-derision that the Modigliani Quartet describe their background, from the founding of the quartet in 2003 to its beginnings at the Berliner Philharmonie in 2017: First Prize Winners of the Young Concert Artists in New York, which opened the doors of the Carnegie Hall to them in 2006, Grand Prix Winners of Académie Charles Cros two years later with Haydn, artistic directors of the Evian Festival in 2014… An impressive and international pedigree for this quartet originally founded by four students of the Conservatoire de Paris keen to try their hands on the greatest chamber music repertoire. This new recording of the sole three quartets of Schumann, works created in one go in 1842 – two years after 1840, “the year of the Lied”, and one year before the two chamber masterpieces that are the Piano Quartet and the Piano Quintet. It’s true that in these quartets, Schumann doesn’t stray too far from Beethoven and even less from Mendelssohn (posthumously dedicatee), maybe the consequence of an inevitably more linear and contrapuntal writing, not as harmonic as the addition of a piano would allow. The fact remains that the Modiglianis capture these three singular works and restore their lines rather than looking for a dense, symphonic and pianistic texture that is not theirs.
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Quatuor Modigliani – Grieg – Smetana (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:03:11 minutes | 2,26 GB | Genre: Classical
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Though both men were pioneers of a new musical identity in a Europe inflamed by nationalist movements, Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) and Bedřich Smetana (1824-84) allowed numerous years to elapse before turning to the string quartet. Did they feel a certain apprehension towards a genre too closely bound up with the Austro-German tradition from which they were trying to break away? No doubt other forms had proved more conducive to their folk-tinged musical language – the miniature for Grieg, the opera and the symphonic poem for Smetana. Already praised for his Piano Concerto, the Norwegian composer produced another success, Peer Gynt, before embarking, at the age of thirty-three, on a quartet in G minor, his first if we discount a student effort that has since been lost. His Czech colleague, in his fifties and struck down by total deafness, had just given up his career as a conductor to retire to a village in central Bohemia, where he wrote a musical autobiography in the form of a quartet in E minor, which was his first too. The two men, separated by a sea and differing national identities, did not know one another. But their quartets, written within a year of each other, seem to spring from the same impulse, provoked by a profound crisis and fuelled by an irrepressible desire to confide the most intimate feelings to this noble genre. Through the communion of sixteen strings, the composers retrace the story of their lives, giving the quartet a dimension that had never yet been so personal, with unprecedented emotional power.
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Quatuor Modigliani – Grieg – Smetana (2024) [24Bit-192kHz] FLAC [PMEDIA] ⭐️
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:03:11 minutes | 2,25 GB | Genre: Classique, Musique de chambre, Quatuors
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