Composer: Harold Arlen, Samuel Barber, Kevin Puts, Caroline Shaw, George Walker
Performer: Miró Quartet
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Pentatone
Catalogue: PTC5187227
Release: 2024
Size: 1.27 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Puts: Home
01. Warm, with rubato
02. Faster, refreshed
03. Dangerously fast
Walker: String Quartet No. 1
04. II. Molto adagio
Shaw: Microfictions
05. I. Under the hot sun…
06. II. The photographs smeared…
07. III. The summer storm laughed…
08. III & 1 / 2. Between the third and fourth…
09. IV. The complete taxonomy…
10. V. Waking up on the early side…
11. VI. The mountains folded in…
Barber: String Quartet, Op. 11
12. I. Molto allegro e appassionato
13. II. Molto adagio
14. III. Molto allegro (come prima) – Presto
15. Arlen: Over the Rainbow (Arr. for String Quartet by William Ryden)
The Miro Quartet presents Home, a new album that explores the many concepts of what the term “home” can mean. Its complexity is woven in a variety of ways into the music: the pieces, all composed by Americans past and present, invite you to feel, reflect, and engage in Miro’s world. In this regard, the album also represent the United States, Miro’s artistic home, in many ways. The program presents two new commissions by Kevin Puts and Caroline Shaw, as well as known and lesser known works by George Walker and Samuel Barber. This is the Miro Quartet’s second album on Pentatone, following the recording of Beethoven’s Complete String Quartets.