Composer: Vagn Holmboe
Performer: Nightingale String Quartet
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Dacapo
Catalogue: 8.226212
Release: 2021
Size: 2.19 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
String Quartet No. 1, Op. 46, M. 159
01. I. Affettuoso
02. II. Adagio
03. III. Introduzione. Lento un poco
String Quartet No. 3, Op. 48, M. 165
04. I. Lento
05. II. Allegro assai e leggiero
06. III. Andante quasi una giacona
07. IV. Allegro decido
08. V. Lento
String Quartet No. 15, Op. 135, M. 291
09. I. Poco allegro
10. II. Allegro molto
11. III. Funèbre
12. IV. Poco adagio. Allegro con brio
After award-winning Langgaard recordings, the Nightingale String Quartet turns to one of the great unsung quartet cycles of the last century, that of Vagn Holmboe (1909-1996). Volume 1 in this new cycle takes in the composer’s first published quartet, his momentum-fuelled Quartet No. 3 and his taut Quartet No. 15 with its pathos-imbued funeral march. These are fresh new performances that support the idea that the deeper you dig into Holmboe’s music, the more you find.
Nightingale String Quartet was formed in 2007 and consists of Gunvor Sihm and Josefine Dalsgaard, violins, Marie Louise Broholt Jensen, viola, and Louisa Schwab, cello. All four are students in the soloist course at the academies in Copenhagen and Aarhus with Professor Tim Frederiksen as mentor and chamber music teacher. Since September 2012 the quartet has also studied regularly with Professor Hatto Beyerle, founder of the Alban Berg Quartet and ECMA (European Chamber Music Academy).