V 3: String Quartets
Label: DACAPO Catalog: 6220577 Format: Hybrid SACD Nightingale String QuartetComposed by: Langgaard, Rued The string quartets of Rued Langgaard (1893-1952) are passionate works from the eccentric composer's youth. The third and concluding release in the Nightingale String Quartet's Langgaard CD series presents the premiere recording of the composer’s very first string quartet, which the composer began in 1914 at the age of 21. Like his subsequent quartets it is shot through with moving musical references to the fateful summer of the year before, when the composer met the (hopeless) love of his life. In 2014, Gramophone Magazine named the Nightingale String Quartet ‘Young Artist of the Year’. About the prior volumes in this series, the critics have been unequivocal in their praise: "The Nightingale Quartet understand the provocative vitality, the fragile romantic sensitivity and the striking intellectual independence behind it all." (BBC Music Magazine) "The performances here are marvelous. The Nightingale SQ relishes every bizarre nuance" (ClassicsToday 10/10) Price: $19.98 |