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Release Date: 09/30/2003 Label: Bis Catalog #: 1264 Spars Code: n/a Composer: Walter Piston, Leon Kirchner, Earl Kim, Bernard Rands, Mario Davidovsky Performer: Lucy Sheldon Orchestra/Ensemble: Mendelssohn String Quartet
Number of Discs: 1 |
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A year ago we released our first recording featuring the Mendelssohn String Quartet. (With Robert Mann as second viola in a recording of the string quintets by Mendelssohn). This was lauded by the critics. Typically, the Sunday Times wrote 'The US-based ensemble play both works with jubilant conviction and mastery of a wide range of colour, dynamics and expressive nuance, the whole sounding wonderfully spontaneous.' For this disc the Mendelssohn Quartet have chosen works spanning 65 years of music by composers with a relation to Harvard: from Walter Piston's 'String Quartet No.1' (1933) to Mario Davidovsky's 'String Quartet No.4' (1998). An added bonus is that the recording is being issued as a hybrid SACD playable on all CD players and offering a surround-sound option for those with the right equipment. The huge range of expression both of the music and of the Mendelssohn Quartet really comes into its own when reproduced in surround sound. A further bonus is the American soprano Lucy Shelton who sings the three French poems set for voice and string quartet by Earl Kim. This is a disc which will provide a host of new insights into the tradition of music in America - in which Harvard University has played an important role. This is a hybrid Super Audio CD playable on both regular and Super Audio CD players. |
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Quartet for Strings no 1 by Walter Piston | ||||
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Orchestra/Ensemble:
Mendelssohn String Quartet
Period: 20th Century Written: 1933; USA |
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Quartet for Strings no 2 by Leon Kirchner | ||||
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Orchestra/Ensemble:
Mendelssohn String Quartet
Period: 20th Century Written: 1958; USA |
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Poems (3) in French by Earl Kim | ||||
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Performer:
Lucy Sheldon (Soprano)
Orchestra/Ensemble: Mendelssohn String Quartet Period: 20th Century Written: 1989; USA |
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Quartet for Strings no 2 by Bernard Rands | ||||
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Orchestra/Ensemble:
Mendelssohn String Quartet
Period: 20th Century Written: 1994; USA |
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Quartet for Strings no 5 by Mario Davidovsky | ||||
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Orchestra/Ensemble:
Mendelssohn String Quartet
Period: 20th Century Written: USA |
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