String Quartets Nos. 6, 7, & 8
by Ben Johnston / Kepler Quartet
- Type: Album
- Released: 15 April 2016
- Label: New World
- Country: United States
- Length: 1:06:40
- Community rating: 4.07/5 from 3 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
This recording completes the Kepler Quartet's ambitious, multi-year project to document Ben Johnston's ten string quartets, works renowned for their revolutionary use of extended just intonation. The album features the world-premiere recordings of the Seventh and Eighth quartets, navigating the former's legendary microtonal complexity and the latter's neo-classical forms. Through a performance of exacting precision, the quartet reveals the unique sonorities and uncanny beauty of Johnston's compositions, which float free from the moorings of conventional twelve-tone equal temperament.
Genres
Descriptors: technical, complex, chamber, strings, microtonal, avant-garde, experimental
Tracklist
- String Quartet No. 7: Scurrying, Forceful, Intense (2:36)
- String Quartet No. 7: Eerie (4:53)
- String Quartet No. 7: With Solemnity (16:21)
- String Quartet No. 8: Vigorous, Aggressive (5:24)
- String Quartet No. 8: Lazy, Rocking (6:06)
- String Quartet No. 8: Fast, Skimming - Light (3:27)
- String Quartet No. 8: Extremely Light and Rhythmic (2:59)
- String Quartet No. 6: Legato espressivo (22:37)
- Quietness (2:17)
Credits
- Karl Lavine - cello
- Brek Renzelman - viola
- Sharan Leventhal - violin [i]
- Eric Segnitz - violin [il], producer
- Ben Johnston - composed by, vocals, Primary Artist
- Bob Defrin - design
- Ric Probst - engineer
- Kyle Gann - liner notes
- Paul Zinman - mastered by [digital mastering]
- Jalaluddin Rumi - text by
- Coleman Barks - translated by
- John Moyne - translated by
- Kepler Quartet - Primary Artist, Ensemble [String Quartet]
- Jalal al-din Rumi - Text By