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- Composer: ANDRIESSEN
- Audio CD (10 Aug 2009)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: ATTACCA
- ASIN: B0027REDLQ
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 411,898 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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| 1. Quartet in Two Movements |
| 2. Facing Death |
| 3. Garden of Eros |
| 4. Prelude and Fugue Book 1 No. 24, BWV869 |
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Not Prime-Time Andriessen
1 Jun 2012
By Ronald Gold
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This cd contains all of Louis Andriessen's music for string quartet, beginning with a bit of modernist juvenalia he wrote in 1957 at age 18. Next comes Facing Death (1990), for amplified instruments, which is largely a paraphrase of Charlie Parker's Ornithology and works until it stops quoting Parker. Then there's Garden of Eros, which matches, beat for beat, the syllables of a poem. And in the final spot is the completion of a Stravinsky draft of a quartet version of a Bach keyboard prelude, which simply makes me ask why such a thing is necessary.
Miserere, the penultimate work, is the only one here with the four equal voices of a genuine string quartet, and the only one that sounds like the post-minimalist Andriessen that some of us know and love. The Schoenberg Quartet does a creditable job with the material, but all in all, I conclude that the string quartet is not Andriessen's metier. This disc is recommendable only to completists like me.
Miserere, the penultimate work, is the only one here with the four equal voices of a genuine string quartet, and the only one that sounds like the post-minimalist Andriessen that some of us know and love. The Schoenberg Quartet does a creditable job with the material, but all in all, I conclude that the string quartet is not Andriessen's metier. This disc is recommendable only to completists like me.
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