Composer: Vagn Holmboe
Performer: Nightingale String Quartet
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Dacapo
Catalogue: 6.220717
Release: 2022
Size: 1.63 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
String Quartet No. 2, Op. 47, M. 161
01. I. Allegro fluente
02. II. Andante con moto e affettuoso
03. III. Presto
04. IV. Adagio un poco
05. V. Allegro molto e leggiero
String Quartet No. 14, Op. 125, M. 278
06. I. Andante trasognamente
07. II. Presto leggiero
08. III. Allegro agitato
09. IV. Adagio
10. V. Allegro
11. VI. Allegro vivace
String Quartet No. 21, Op. Posth. 197 “Sereno” (Completed by P. Nørgård)
12. I. Adagio
13. II. Allegro
“A most promising start to an essential, richly recorded survey”, observed Gramophone about the first volume of Vagn Holmboe’s complete string quartets by the Nightingale String Quartet. In this, the second instalment, the Nightingale’s continues convincingly with energetic, precise, yet lively and poetic interpretations of the Holmboe quartets, which stand amongst the most significant contributions to the genre in the 20th century.
Nightingale String Quartet is based in Copenhagen and is made up of Gunvor Sihm and Josefine Dalsgaard, violins, Marie Louise Broholt Jensen, viola, and Louisa Schwab, cello. All the members of Nightingale String Quartet studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen, where Professor Tim Frederiksen has been their faithful mentor ever since the Quartet was founded in 2007.