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Complete String Quartets
Philip Glass

The Smith Quartet

Complete String Quartets

Price: € 25.95
Format: CD
Label: Signum Classics
UPC: 0635212011720
Catnr: SIGCD 117
Release date: 01 March 2008
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Label
Signum Classics
UPC
0635212011720
Catalogue number
SIGCD 117
Release date
01 March 2008
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About the album

Following on from the critically acclaimed albums, Different Trains and Ghost Stories, The Smith Quartet’s present their latest album, the complete string quartets by the world-acclaimed composer, Philip Glass. Over a time span of 25 years, Glass completed 8 quartets (the 3 earliest were withdrawn) drawing on the influences of Bach to Shostakovich, as well as exterior musical sources: dance, theatre and film. Clear - cut , polished performances by The Smith Quartet give the listener an excellent taster of a quartet at the forefront of contemporary music.

"Glass weaves filigree tapestries given polished, finely detailed airings by the virtuoso Brits" The Observer

"How long before the Kronos is labelled the 'American Smith Quartet'? ... they are ahead of the curve at generating new repertoire and taking the experimental back-catalogue seriously" Classic FM Magazine

If success was measured according to output and sales units alone, Glass would be head and shoulders above his contemporaries ... played with characteristic precision and projection by the ensemble" Gramophone

Alle strijkkwartetten van Philip Glass op een album
Na hun door de critici hooggewaardeerde albums Different Trains en Ghost Stories, presenteert The Smith Quartet een album met alle strijkkwartetten van de wereldberoemde componist Philip Glass. Gedurende een periode van 25 jaar voltooide Glass acht kwartetten (de eerste drie werden teruggetrokken), geput uit de invloeden van Bach tot Sjostakovitsj, en daarnaast buitenmuzikale bronnen zoals dans, theater en film. De duidelijke en gepolijste uitvoeringen van The Smith Quartet geven de luisteraar een voortreffelijk voorproefje van een kwartet aan het front van de hedendaagse muziek.

The Smith Quartet heeft zich gevestigd als belangrijk ensemble in de hedendaagse muziekwereld. Het heeft een indrukwekkend repertoire van werken van de meest innovatieve en opwindende componisten opgebouwd. Het kwartet is van begin af aan toegewijd aan het opdragen van nieuwe werken, en er zijn er al meer dan 100 voor het ensemble gecomponeerd. Het ensemble treedt op in Noord- en Zuid-Amerika, Zuidoost-Azië en Europa.

Enkele recensenten over dit album:
“Glass weaves filigree tapestries given polished, finely detailed airings by the virtuoso Brits.” – The Observer

“If success was measured according to output and sales units alone, Glass would be head and shoulders above his contemporaries (...) played with characteristic precision and projection by the ensemble.” – Gramophone

Artist(s)

Composer(s)

Philip Glass

The American composer Philip Glass is considered as one of the influential composers of the late 20th century. His music has often been described as minimal music, although Glass himself preferred to describe his work as “music with repetitive structures.” Glass was born in 1937 in Baltimore. In 1964 he travelled to Paris, where he studied with the famous pedagogue Nadia Boulanger and worked closely with the composer and sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar, who both have influenced his compositions. When he returned to New York in 1967 he attended a performance of works by Steve Reich, which left a deep impression on him. He subsequently began to compose in a simplified and consonant style, based on additive rhythms and a sense...
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The American composer Philip Glass is considered as one of the influential composers of the late 20th century. His music has often been described as minimal music, although Glass himself preferred to describe his work as “music with repetitive structures.” Glass was born in 1937 in Baltimore. In 1964 he travelled to Paris, where he studied with the famous pedagogue Nadia Boulanger and worked closely with the composer and sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar, who both have influenced his compositions. When he returned to New York in 1967 he attended a performance of works by Steve Reich, which left a deep impression on him. He subsequently began to compose in a simplified and consonant style, based on additive rhythms and a sense of time that has been influenced by the playwright Samuel Beckett. In 1971 he founded the Philip Glass Ensemble, an amplified ensemble with keyboards, saxophones, flutes and soprano voices, with which he continues to perform regularly.
In 1975 Glass composed his first opera, Einstein on the Beach, in collaboration with Robert Wilson. Later on this work became part of a trilogy on revolutionary figures in world history, which further includes the operas Satyagraha about the life of Mahatma Gandhi and Akhnaten about the Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaton. These works are regularly performed in the world’s leading opera houses.
Since the 1980’s, Glass writes music for influential and award-winning movies such as Koyaanisqatsi, Kundun and The Hours. From the 1990’s onwards, he composes more and more conventional classical music for string quartet and symphony orchestra.

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Disc #1
01.
String Quartet No.3, Mishima:: I. 1957 - Award Montage
04:08
(Philip Glass)
01.
String Quartet No.3, Mishima:: I. 1957 - Award Montage
04:08
(Philip Glass)
02.
String Quartet No.3, Mishima:: II. November 25 - Ichigaya
01:14
(Philip Glass)
02.
String Quartet No.3, Mishima:: II. November 25 - Ichigaya
01:14
(Philip Glass)
03.
String Quartet No.3, Mishima:: III. Grandmother and Kimitake
03:19
(Philip Glass)
03.
String Quartet No.3, Mishima:: III. Grandmother and Kimitake
03:19
(Philip Glass)
04.
String Quartet No.3, Mishima:: IV. 1962 - Body Building
01:42
(Philip Glass)
04.
String Quartet No.3, Mishima:: IV. 1962 - Body Building
01:42
(Philip Glass)
05.
String Quartet No.3, Mishima:: V. Blood Oath
02:51
(Philip Glass)
05.
String Quartet No.3, Mishima:: V. Blood Oath
02:51
(Philip Glass)
06.
String Quartet No.3, Mishima:: VI. Mishima/Closing (End Credits)
02:50
(Philip Glass)
06.
String Quartet No.3, Mishima:: VI. Mishima/Closing (End Credits)
02:50
(Philip Glass)
07.
String Quartet No.2, Company:: I
02:51
(Philip Glass)
07.
String Quartet No.2, Company:: I
02:51
(Philip Glass)
08.
String Quartet No.2, Company:: II
01:49
(Philip Glass)
08.
String Quartet No.2, Company:: II
01:49
(Philip Glass)
09.
String Quartet No.2, Company:: III
01:46
(Philip Glass)
09.
String Quartet No.2, Company:: III
01:46
(Philip Glass)
10.
String Quartet No.2, Company:: IV
02:12
(Philip Glass)
10.
String Quartet No.2, Company:: IV
02:12
(Philip Glass)
11.
String Quartet No.4, Buczak:: I
07:30
(Philip Glass)
11.
String Quartet No.4, Buczak:: I
07:30
(Philip Glass)
12.
String Quartet No.4, Buczak:: II
08:25
(Philip Glass)
12.
String Quartet No.4, Buczak:: II
08:25
(Philip Glass)
13.
String Quartet No.4, Buczak:: III
06:57
(Philip Glass)
13.
String Quartet No.4, Buczak:: III
06:57
(Philip Glass)

Disc #2
01.
String Quartet No.1:: I Part 1
08:48
(Philip Glass)
01.
String Quartet No.1:: I Part 1
08:48
(Philip Glass)
02.
String Quartet No.1:: I Part 1
07:28
(Philip Glass)
02.
String Quartet No.1:: II Part 2
07:28
(Philip Glass)
03.
String Quartet No.1:: II Part 2
01:35
(Philip Glass)
03.
String Quartet No.5:: I
01:35
(Philip Glass)
04.
String Quartet No.5:: I
03:12
(Philip Glass)
04.
String Quartet No.5:: II
03:12
(Philip Glass)
05.
String Quartet No.5:: II
06:30
(Philip Glass)
05.
String Quartet No.5:: III
06:30
(Philip Glass)
06.
String Quartet No.5:: III
05:08
(Philip Glass)
06.
String Quartet No.5:: IV
05:08
(Philip Glass)
07.
String Quartet No.5:: IV
07:59
(Philip Glass)
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