Sonatas for String Quartet; Adagissimo; Quartets Nos. 2 and 3

by Brian Ferneyhough & Arditti Quartet

Sonatas for String Quartet; Adagissimo; Quartets Nos. 2 and 3 cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1990
  • Label: Montaigne
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 52:40
  • Community rating: 3.94/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Standing as a defining pillar of the 'New Complexity' movement, this release features impossibly intricate, hyper-detailed string quartet compositions. The Arditti Quartet navigates the composer's ferocious, atonal technical demands with an astonishing precision that completely shatters traditional chamber music expectations.

Genres

Descriptors: instrumental, technical, acoustic, uncommon-time-signatures, complex, atonal, suite, dissonant, microtonal, through-composed, chamber, strings, avant-garde

Tracklist

  1. Deuxi猫me Quatuor 脿 Cordes / Second String Quartet (9:48)
  2. Adagissimo Pour Quatuor 脿 Cordes / Adagissimo For String Quartet (1:47)
  3. Movement I
  4. Movement II
  5. Sonates Pour Quatuor 脿 Cordes / Sonatas For String Quartet (41:05)

Credits

  • Brian Ferneyhough - primary artist
  • Arditti Quartet - primary artist, ensemble
  • Rohan De Saram - cello
  • Levine Andrade - viola
  • David Alberman - violin
  • Irvine Arditti - violin

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