Danish String Quartet

Prism IV (ECM 2564)

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Prism IV

Danish String Quartet

ECM New Series

028948573059

ECM 167417

ECM 2564

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CD 16,98 €

The Danish String Quartet’s Grammy-nominated Prism project, linking Bach fugues, Beethoven quartets and works by later masters, receives its fourth installment. The penultimate volume of the series combines Bach’s Fugue in G minor from the Well-Tempered Clavier (in the arrangement by Viennese composer Emanuel Aloys Förster) with Beethoven’s String Quartet Op. 132 and Felix Mendelssohn’s String Quartet No.2 (composed in 1827).

As Paul Griffiths observes in the liner notes, these pieces “sound all the more remarkable for the exquisite brilliance and precision of the Danish players”. Recorded in the historic Reitstadel Neumarkt, the album is issued as the Danish String Quartet is in the midst of an extensive tour across the United States and Europe.

PERSONNEL:

  • Frederik Øland - (violin)
  • Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen - (violin)
  • Asbjørn Nørgaard - (viola)
  • Fredrik Schøyen Sjölin - (violoncello)

Recorded September 2018 & January 2019, Reitstadel, Neumarkt

TRACKS:

  • The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I (Johann Sebastian Bach)
  • 01. Fugue in G minor, BWV 861
  • String Quartet No. 15 in A minor, op.132
  • (Ludwig van Beethoven)
  • 02. Assai sostenuto - Allegro
  • 03. Allegro ma non tanto
  • 04. Molto adagio - Andante
  • 05. Alla marcia, assai vivace - Più allegro
  • 06. Allegro appassionato - Presto
  • String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, op.13
  • (Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy)
  • 07. Adagio - Allegro vivace
  • 08. Adagio non lento
  • 09. Intermezzo. Allegretto con moto - Allegro di molto
  • 10. Presto - Adagio non lento