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Solem Quartet – The Four Quartets (24/96 FLAC)

Solem Quartet - The Four Quartets (24/96 FLAC)
Solem Quartet – The Four Quartets (24/96 FLAC)

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Composer: Thomas Adès, Béla Bartók, Kate Bush, Ivor Bertie Gurney, William Marsey, Cassandra Miller, Aaron Parker, Florence Price, Henry Purcell, Robert Schumann
Performer: Solem Quartet, Amy Tress, William Newell, Stephen Upshaw, Stephanie Tress
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Orchid
Catalogue: ORC100172
Release: 2021
Size: 1 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes

Adès: The Four Quarters
01. I. Nightfalls

Gurney: Five Elizabethan Songs
02. No. 5, Sleep (Arr. W. Newell for String Quartet)

Miller: Warblework
03. III. Hermit Thrush

04. Ca’ the Yowes (Arr. S. Tress for String Quartet)

Adès: The Four Quarters
05. II. Serenade, Morning Dew

06. Purcell: By beauteous softness (from Now does the glorious day appear, Z332)
07. Marsey: Be nice to see you

Miller: Warblework
08. IV. Veery

Adès: The Four Quarters
09. III. Days

10. Price: Summer Moon
11. Bartók: Hungarian Sketches, BB 103, Sz. 97: No. 1, Evening in Transylvania
12. Schumann: Kinderszenen, Op. 15: Kind im Einschlummern

Parker: Tuoretu
13. IV. Easqelä (Suspended, Spacious, in a Dusky Half Light)

Adès: The Four Quarters
14. IV. The Twenty-Fifth Hour

15. Bush: And Dream of Sheep (Arr. W. Newell for String Quartet)

Using Thomas Ades’ The Four Quarters as a framework – and featuring several arrangements by the ensemble – the Solem Quartet’s long-awaited debut album explores composers’ depictions of night and day and all the moments in between; from the melodious dawn chorus of Cassandra Miller’s Warblework, via Bartok’s earthly and touching portrayal of An Evening in the Village to Kate Bush’s ethereal And Dream Of Sheep.

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