Metamorphosis: Bartok / Kurtag / Ligeti
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BARTOK / LIGETI / KURTAG
Metamorphosis: Bartok / Kurtag / Ligeti
Cuarteto Casals
[ Harmonia Mundi / CD ]
Release Date: Tuesday 20 July 2010
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It is sometimes said that the essence of 'classical' music lies in the principle of variation; but when the idea of incessant transformation of the musical material irrigates scores like these quartets by three eminent Hungarian composers of the 20th century, the resulting sonic impressions are very different. The governing principle here is metamorphosis, an idea as dear to Bartók as it was to the compatriots who succeeded him.
"Bartók's piece has perhaps the most unsettling opening of any string quartet - a discomfiting premonition of the technical challenges ahead, from the furtive prestissimo to the biting pizzicatos of the allegretto, all navigated with sensitivity to the changing moodscape by the Quarteto Casals" (Independent)
"The Bartok Fourth Quartet receives a relatively 'classical', even cool account - not as relentlessly hard-driven as some other recent accounts of the piece but in itself perfectly valid (and certainly not as exhausting). On the technical elevel, it is practically perfect." (International Record Review)
Tracks:
Bartók:
String Quartet No. 4, Sz 91
Kurtág:
12 Microludes
Ligeti:
String Quartet No. 1 'Métamorphoses nocturnes'
