Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven, Anders Hillborg
Performer: Calder Quartet
Audio CD
Number of Discs: 1
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Pentatone
Size: 1.45 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Beethoven: String Quartet No. 3 in D major, Op. 18 No. 3
01. I. Allegro
02. II. Andante con moto
03. III. Allegro
04. IV. Presto
05. Hillborg: Kongsgaard Variations
Beethoven: String Quartet No. 14 in C sharp minor, Op. 131
06. I. Adagio
07. II. Allegro molto vivace
08. III. Allegro moderato
09. IV. Andante
10. V. Presto
11. VI. Adagio
12. VII. Allegro
The Calder Quartet invites you on a journey from early to late Beethoven, passing through an exciting contemporary piece by Swedish composer Anders Hillborg along the way. Beethoven’s Op.131 String Quartet, that concludes this album, is already a great adventure in its own right, with its seven movement full of fugal writing, harmonic explorations, variations and passages filled with operatic drama. Hearing this late masterpiece together with the much more classical, but equally lively, Op.18 no.3 Quartet opens our ears to the exceptional richness of Beethoven’s musical universe. Hillborg’s Kongsgaard Variations reveals unexpected sonic relationships to Beethoven’s variation technique, underlining the modernity of the older composer. This all leads to a programme that is lively, layered and ravishingly beautiful.
Hailed as one of the most exciting classical music groups of the United States, the Calder Quartet now present the first fruit of its exclusive collaboration with PENTATONE.