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Haydn's Nature
Joseph Haydn

Matangi Quartet

Haydn's Nature

Price: € 19.95
Format: CD
Label: Challenge Classics
UPC: 0608917259223
Catnr: CC 72592
Release date: 26 July 2013
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Label
Challenge Classics
UPC
0608917259223
Catalogue number
CC 72592
Release date
26 July 2013

"Not very positive "

Gramophone, 01-3-2014
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About the album

Kindness, warmth, quiet calm – it is Haydn all over. Although the album title suggests a nature theme, just how green is Haydn’s music? Titles like Frog, bird, sunrise… Although Matangi zealously devotes itself to the composer’s sustainability, do not allow yourself to be hoodwinked by the names. Matangi Quartet gathers three String quartets (op. 76 No. 4, op. 50 No. 6, op. 33 No. 3) by Haydn on one CD, interprets them musically under aspects of nature and gives them subtitles as metaphors for specific musical figures: Sunrise, The Frog and The Bird.

De natuur in strijkkwartetten van Joseph Haydn
Op dit album zijn drie strijkkwartetten van Joseph Haydn verzameld door het Matangi Quartet. De namen van deze stukken verwijzen naar de natuur en ze worden prachtig vertolkt door het ensemble.

De drie strijkkwartetten hebben de bijnamen 'Zonsopgang', 'Kikker' en 'Vogel'. Het is echter geen programmatische muziek wat Haydn heeft geschreven; de namen verwijzen naar specifieke muzikale eigenschappen. Zijn liefde voor de natuur wordt in deze stukken gecombineerd met zijn gevoel voor humor, wat perfect tot uiting komt in deze drie strijkkwartetten.

Het Matangi Quartet werd opgericht in 1999 door vier jonge musici die studeerden aan het conservatorium. Het kwartet heeft als doel om verschillende klassieke werken uit de afgelopen 250 jaar met nieuwe energie op te nemen en uit te voeren. Dit album is een bewijs daarvan, een prachtige vertolking van Haydns strijkkwartetten over zijn liefde voor de natuur.

Haynd's nature - die Natur in Sreichquartetten von Joseph Haydn.

Seit seiner Gründung 1999 konnte das Matangi Quartett mehrere Preise gewinnen, sowohl auf dem klassischen als auch auf dem Jazz-Sektor. Die CDs der jungen niederländischen Musiker erhielten hervorragende Kritiken.
Ihre neueste Einspielung widmet sich drei tiefgehenden Streichquartetten von Joseph Haydn, die mit einem Thema aus der Natur im Titel versehen sind: Sonnenaufgang – Der Frosch – Der Vogel. Haydn komponierte hier keine Programmmusik, die Titel stehen als Metaphern zu speziellen musikalischen Figuren in seiner Musik.
Eine klangvolle Spurensuche eines großartigen Ensembles.

Artist(s)

Matangi Quartet

The Matangi Quartet was founded in 1999 by four young musicians then studying at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague and the Conservatory of Rotterdam. In 2003 Matangi completed the two-year, full-time course at the Netherlands String Quartet Academy under the direction of Stefan Metz (cellist, Orlando Quartet). At the Academy, the Matangi Quartet had the opportunity to take lessons from international renowned musicians, including the members of the Amadeus Quartet. The quartet also received intensive mentoring from Henk Guittart (violist, Schönberg Quartet) for several years. The Matangi Quartet has since developed into a regular performer in the Dutch chamber music scene and abroad. With their impassioned playing and smart presentation, Maria-Paula, Daniel, Karsten and Arno epitomize a new generation of...
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The Matangi Quartet was founded in 1999 by four young musicians then studying at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague and the Conservatory of Rotterdam. In 2003 Matangi completed the two-year, full-time course at the Netherlands String Quartet Academy under the direction of Stefan Metz (cellist, Orlando Quartet). At the Academy, the Matangi Quartet had the opportunity to take lessons from international renowned musicians, including the members of the Amadeus Quartet. The quartet also received intensive mentoring from Henk Guittart (violist, Schönberg Quartet) for several years.
The Matangi Quartet has since developed into a regular performer in the Dutch chamber music scene and abroad. With their impassioned playing and smart presentation, Maria-Paula, Daniel, Karsten and Arno epitomize a new generation of classical musicians. They are often characterized by words such as communicative, provocative and refreshingly versatile. The Matangi Quartet has shared the stage with various top-class classical musicians such as the Schönberg Quartet, the Royal Quartet, Miranda van Kralingen, Tania Kross, Ivo Janssen, Paolo Giacometti and Severin von Eckardstein.
The quartet has also been invited to perform in various festivals and concert series, including the Delft Chamber Music Festival, the Amsterdam Grachtenfestival, the Aix-en-Provence Festival, the Orlando Festival, the Robeco Summer Concert Series in Amsterdam, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Festival van Carthage in Tunisia, the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai and the International Conservatoire Festival in St Petersburg. Since 2005 the quartet has presented its own concert series in the ‘Beurs van Berlage’ in Amsterdam.
In 2002 Matangi was awarded the prestigious Kersjes van de Groenekan Award, an annual prize awarded to exceptional chamber music talent in the Netherlands. In 2008 the quartet won third prize at the International Joseph Joachim Chamber Music Competition in Weimar. The Matangi Quartet released several CDs issued by Challenge Records International which all received great critical acclaim. The latest releases were the CDs ‘Mendelssohn’ (2009) and ‘Candybox’ (2010). Together with viola da gamba player Ralph Rousseau the quartet won the Edison Audience Award 2009, for their CD ‘Chansons d’amour’ (Challenge Records 2008).
Matangi regularly participates in innovative crossover projects and has performed in collaboration with artists such as cabaretiers Herman van Veen and Youp van ’t Hek, bandoneon player Carel Kraayenhof, jazz trumpeter Eric Vloeimans, DJ Kypski, jazz vocalists Mathilde Santing and Renske Taminiau, singer songwriters Lory Liebermann and Tom McRae. These pioneering excursions beyond the borders of classical music have resulted in Matangi winning an enthusiastic new public for the string quartet. No less important, this has provided a source of inspiration for infusing performances of the rich classical repertoire built up over the past 250 years – from Haydn to Adès – with new élan. For essentially, the Matangi are focused on just one thing: letting the audience palpably experience the energy, passion and excitement that is inherent in all good music.
All four musicians perform on instruments of Dutch workmanship. The cello and first violin have been provided on loan by the Dutch National Musical Instrument Foundation.
Who is Matangi? Matangi is the Indian goddess of speech, music and writing. The vina that she carries in her hand is an instrument that produces deep sounds with pleasing overtones. Matangi transports her listeners with her playing on the strings of passion, fervour, love and ecstasy.

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Joseph Haydn

(Franz) Joseph Haydn was a prolific Austrian composer of the Classical period. He was instrumental in the development of chamber music such as the piano trio and his contributions to musical form have earned him the epithets 'Father of the Symphony' and 'Father of the String Quartet'.   Haydn spent much of his career as a court musician for the wealthy Esterházy family at their remote estate. Until the later part of his life, this isolated him from other composers and trends in music so that he was, as he put it, 'forced to become original'. Yet his music circulated widely and for much of his career he was the most celebrated composer in Europe.   He was a friend and mentor of Mozart,...
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(Franz) Joseph Haydn was a prolific Austrian composer of the Classical period. He was instrumental in the development of chamber music such as the piano trio and his contributions to musical form have earned him the epithets "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String Quartet".
Haydn spent much of his career as a court musician for the wealthy Esterházy family at their remote estate. Until the later part of his life, this isolated him from other composers and trends in music so that he was, as he put it, "forced to become original". Yet his music circulated widely and for much of his career he was the most celebrated composer in Europe.
He was a friend and mentor of Mozart, a teacher of Beethoven, with whom he formed the First Viennese School. He was also the older brother of composer Michael Haydn.

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Press

Not very positive 
Gramophone, 01-3-2014

What makes this release attractive is its offering an aproacht to Haydn that departs from the usual 
International Record Review, 12-2-2014

Their way of interpreting is impressive
Sonograma, 29-12-2013

Frans 
www.sonograma.org, 29-12-2013

Consistently intelligent playing wins out over purely beautiful tone, which here is just right.
The Observer, 13-12-2013

More than promising.Very good
Luister, 01-11-2013

"The initiative of the Matangi's to come up with a complete album full of Haydn deserves applause!"
www.opusklassiek.nl, 09-10-2013

"Especially in the more subdued passages the Matangi Quartet shines, with a beautiful balance between the sounds of different instruments. New prices will follow"
Mania, 13-9-2013

"This is awesome. This is the high Art of the string quartet. The balance is so beautiful, it is organic, sometimes it is very pure and non-vibrato and then again there is a more firmer approach, and also that clear cello part, it is just wonderful."
Radio 4 Diskotabel, 08-9-2013

"Especially in the more subdued passages shines the Matangi Quartet, with a wonderful balance between the different instruments. New prices will follow."
www.platomania.eu, 28-8-2013

Four star review in Het Parool **** "All pieces are equally beautiful and are performed in an equally exquisite manner. yet the slower parts stand out. These are always played untisentimentally, and are therefore even more touching [...] Highly recommended"- Erik Voermans- Parool
het Parool, 24-8-2013

Four star review in De Volkskrant De Volkskrant **** "The past years, the ensemble has nicely matured into a quartet with a balanced and homogeneous sound and a soul of its own." - Biëlla Luttmer - Volkskrant
De Volkskrant, 21-8-2013

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