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Coates, G-String Quartets Nos 1, 5 & 6

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  • Audio CD (4 Feb 2002)
  • SPARS Code: DDD
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Naxos
  • ASIN: B00005Y0MR
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 84,228 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Song Title Time Price
Listen  1. String Quartet No. 5: Through Time10:59Album Only
Listen  2. String Quartet No. 5: Through Space11:07Album Only
Listen  3. String Quartet No. 5: In the Fifth Dimension 9:07Album Only
Listen  4. String Quartet No. 1: Protestation Quartet 5:49£0.69
Listen  5. String Quartet No. 6: Still 6:11£0.69
Listen  6. String Quartet No. 6: Meditation 8:52Album Only
Listen  7. String Quartet No. 6: Evanescence 7:08£0.69

On this CD:
  1. String Quartet No 1
    Composed by Gloria Coates

  2. String Quartet No 5
    Composed by Gloria Coates

  3. String Quartet No 6
    Composed by Gloria Coates

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Genuinely Contemporary Sound, 27 Feb 2006
By Bernard Davis "Bernard Davis" (Birmingham, England) - See all my reviews
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A first listen to the music of Gloria Coates is a breath of fresh air. Here is a genuinely contemporary sound, one that emerges naturally from our time and culture. Here are sounds to express our sense of time, space, movement and activity. There is no sense of is referentiallism. What a relief! There is no rehashing of someone else's style , whether from 10 or 500 years ago. There is no wilful difficulty to this music or the collaging of disparate influences. This music emerges fully formed with its own confident voice, it means to communicate and it does so, while being a language unto itself.

Gloria Coates primary musical means is glissando, the blending of one note into another. She uses this continually to create a music of incredible spaciousness where the four instruments of a quartet can create a whole orchestra, or perhaps in this case, buzzing beehive, of sound.

String Quartet No 5 is something of a musical summation for the composer as she explores the possibilities of her chosen means. The first movement Through Time searches a way out of nothingness with increasingly surety, from the vaguest tonal probings to the makings of an icy melody. The second movement Through Space is an exploration of the experience of modern travel. It is something of a classical version of Kraftwerks Autobahn, but far more elemental as the strings summon up something like the sounds of Jet Engines, passing cars, trains and high velocity elevators. The final movement In the Fifth Dimension warps this into a revolving flux of sound that is genuinely unsettling. While listening to it I experience a kind of sonic sea sickness. Composers often talk of wanting to create an unsettling music for a violent and uncertain age. Gloria Coates actually delivers.

String Quartet No 1 protestation Quartet is a single 6 minute movement of more conventional sounds with arpeggios as well as glissando. The music gradually builds up the tension as if it has a premonition that something terrible is about to occur.

Quartet No 6 is very much a combination of the means of Quartets 1 and 5. It repays being listened to separately to be appreciated on it own terms, but even then its central movement Meditation is rather too close to Through Space from the 5th Quartet. The last movement Evanescence is a celebration of subtleties of deep, rich tones. The nearest music I can think of to this is Arvo Parts classic Tabula Rasa and Fratres, if they were stripped of every last historical reference. This is pure and primal music in the most absolute sense.

The playing is of amazing quality throughout. The Kreutzer Quartet sound as if they are relishing the language of the music. Couple the music itself with the performance and what is an excellent recorded sound and this is a very special disc indeed.
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