Quatuor Psophos – Haydn: Opus 54 (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Quatuor Psophos – Haydn: Opus 54 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 58:25 minutes | 1,13 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © EnPhases

Composed in 1788 and considered works of Haydn’s full maturity as a composer, the quartets of Opus 54 immerse us in the bountiful universe of “the Father of the String Quartet”. Like with the Adagio of Op. 54 n° 2, his humanity and profundity fill us with wonder and remind us to what extent the very essence of the string quartet is exalted in this music.

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Quatuor Psophos – Canto Di Speranza (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Quatuor Psophos – Canto Di Speranza (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 58:58 minutes | 1,00 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Klarthe Records

These string quartets by Nicolas Bacri, who has written eleven quartets to this day, are at the heart of the composer’s thought process and illustrate perfectly his 2009 statement: “Why not see contemporary creation as the recreation of a modernity whose origins should be re-interpreted each time, re-played, looked at from the angle of an ‘original trauma’, a new outpouring from the traditional core, an aesthetic tension that is sometimes heightened and sometimes eased, that reinvents the nature of its rupture with tradition each time, whilst simultaneously building upon it?

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