Quatuor Bozzini

Quatuor Bozzini – Tom Johnson: Combinations (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:06:54 minutes | 1,20 GB | Genre: Classical
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Tom Johnson uses numbers as base material, turning formulas, combinations and other mathematic phenomena into music. And somehow, this music becomes poetry, sometimes like a haiku, sometimes like a sonnet, sometimes descriptive and clear, often enigmatic but always beautiful.
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Quatuor Bozzini – Éliane Radigue: Occam Delta XV (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:13:57 minutes | 786 MB | Genre: Classical
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The composer Éliane Radigue has been working on her cycle of works for acoustic instruments ‘Occam’ since 2011. ‘Occam Delta XV’ for string quartet has been created with and for Quatuor Bozzini and is presented on MaerzMusik on Demand.
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Quatuor Bozzini – Bryn Harrison: Three Descriptions of Place and Movement (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:52 minutes | 1,07 GB | Genre: Classical
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Following the success of their 2017-18 collaboration (Bozzini+, Piano Quintet, HCR19), the Bozzini Quartet is reunited with composer Bryn Harrison for Harrison’s first string quartet, the three-movement, hour-long Three Descriptions of Place and Movement (2021). A fi-rst string quartet is a landmark moment for any composer, but Harrison’s feels like a particularly signi-ficant arrival: the homogenous instrumentation is ideally suited to the disorienting labyrinthine structures, intricate repetitions, and extended durations that have characterized much of his recent work. The title’s three ‘descriptions’ are clarifi-ed in the names of the movements. Opening, clearing, and burrow-all doubly verbs and nouns-are each embedded with simultaneous motion and stasis. Opening, an unfolding, widening, growing from a single point, as well as the aperture, the crevice, the window that frames the perception of space. Clearing, a kind of purging or scrubbing of materials down to their barren core, or a wide empty space, ‑at and nondescript, de-fined by the negative. And burrow, to carve deeper, to dig into, to bury oneself completely, or an underground cocoon, warm, enveloping, home.
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