Composer: Thomas Adès, Ludwig van Beethoven, John Dowland, Orlando di Lassus
Performer: Castalian String Quartet
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Delphian
Catalogue: DCD34272
Release: 2022
Size: 1.12 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Lassus: La nuit froide et sombre
Beethoven: String Quartet No. 15 in A minor, Op. 132
02. I. Assai sostenuto – Allegro
03. II. Allegro ma non tanto
04. III. Molto adagio (Heiliger Dankgesang eines Genesenen an die Gottheit)
05. IV. Alla marcia, assai vivace
06. V. Allegro appassionato
Adès: The Four Quarters
07. I. Nightfalls
08. II. Morning Dew
09. III. Days
10. IV. The Twenty-fifth Hour
11. Dowland: Come heavy sleep
From the darkness of night emerges day, the cycle of nature tracing the journey of the soul. The finely calibrated emotions of Orlande de Lassus’s song La nuit froide et sombre, and of his near-contemporary John Dowland’s Come, heavy sleep, are made newly vivid in transcriptions by the Castalian String Quartet, framing a programme which exists both inside and beyond time. Profound meditations on immortality and worldliness from Beethoven and Thomas Adès receive readings of extraordinary intensity, the Quartet’s burnished tone and astounding interconnectedness making this a debut that demands to be heard.