Ecm 2561 Danish String Quartet Prism I

Danish String Quartet - Prism I (2018)  Music

Posted by delpotro at Nov. 21, 2021
Danish String Quartet - Prism I (2018)

Danish String Quartet - Prism I (2018)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 328 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 227 Mb | Covers included | 01:18:12
Classical | Label: ECM Records

Danish String Quartet present the first of their Prism recordings, demonstrating the influence of J.S. Bach through Beethoven and beyond—his music developed, transformed, and scattered into colors as if through a prism. The Quartet begin their voyage with Mozart’s arrangement of a Bach fugue before diving headlong into Shostakovich’s 1974 String Quartet No. 15—a bleak, often dissonant meditation on mortality that draws on Bachian fugue and counterpoint. And in his remarkable 1825 Op. 127 String Quartet, performed here with a beautifully judged sense of narrative, Beethoven holds Bach in the palm of his hand as the music meanders and unfolds toward its radiant final bars.
Danish String Quartet - Prism II: Beethoven, Schnittke, Bach (2019)

Danish String Quartet - Prism II: Beethoven, Schnittke, Bach (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 328 Mb | Total time: 76:21 | Scans included
Classical | Label: ECM | # ECM 2562 | Recorded: 2017

The Danish String Quartet’s Grammy-nominated Prism project links Bach fugues, late Beethoven quartets and works by modern masters. In volume two of the series, Bach’s Fugue in Bb minor from the Well-Tempered Clavier (in the arrangement by Viennese composer Emanuel Aloys Förster) is brought together with Beethoven’s String Quartet Op. 130 and Alfred Schnittke’s String Quartet No.3 (composed in 1983). As the quartet explains, “A beam of music is split through Beethoven’s prism. The important thing to us is that these connections be experienced widely. We hope the listener will join us in the wonder of thee beams of music that travel all the way from Bach through Beethoven to our own times.”
Danish String Quartet - Prism III: Beethoven, Bartók, Bach (2021)

Danish String Quartet - Prism III: Beethoven, Bartók, Bach (2021)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 324 Mb | Total time: 76:45 | Scans included
Classical | Label: ECM | # ECM 2563 | Recorded: 2017

The third volume of the Danish String Quartet’s ongoing Prism series, which shows how the radiance of Bach’s fugues is refracted through Beethoven’s quartets to illuminate the work of later composers. “Beethoven had taken a fundamentally linear development from Bach,” the Danes note, “and exploded everything into myriads of different colours, directions and opportunities – much in the same way as a prism splits a beam of light.” Here the quartet follow the beam from Johann Sebastian Bach’s Fugue in c-sharp minor through Ludwig van Beethoven’s String Quartet no.14 to Béla Bartók’s String Quartet No.1.

Danish String Quartet - Prism IV (2022)  Music

Posted by delpotro at March 25, 2023
Danish String Quartet - Prism IV (2022)

Danish String Quartet - Prism IV (2022)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 362 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 190 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:19:53
Classical | Label: ECM Records

The Danish String Quartet's Grammy-nominated Prism project, linking Bach fugues, Beethoven quartets and works by later masters, receives its fourth installment. The penultimate volume of the series combines Bach's Fugue in G minor from the Well-Tempered Clavier (in the arrangement by Viennese composer Emanuel Aloys Frster) with Beethoven's String Quartet Op. 132 and Felix Mendelssohn's String Quartet No.2 (composed in 1827). As Paul Griffiths observes in the liner notes, these pieces "sound all the more remarkable for the exquisite brilliance and precision of the Danish players".

Danish String Quartet - Prism III (2021)  Music

Posted by delpotro at March 11, 2021
Danish String Quartet - Prism III (2021)

Danish String Quartet - Prism III (2021)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 325 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 176 Mb | 01:16:29
Classical | Label: ECM Records

The third volume of the Danish String Quartet’s ongoing Prism series, which shows how the radiance of Bach’s fugues is refracted through Beethoven’s quartets to illuminate the work of later composers. “Beethoven had taken a fundamentally linear development from Bach,” the Danes note, “and exploded everything into myriads of different colours, directions and opportunities – much in the same way as a prism splits a beam of light.” Here the quartet follow the beam from Johann Sebastian Bach’s Fugue in c-sharp minor through Ludwig van Beethoven’s String Quartet no.14 to Béla Bartók’s String Quartet No.1.

Danish String Quartet - Prism V: Beethoven, Webern, Bach (2023)  Music

Posted by delpotro at Aug. 19, 2023
Danish String Quartet - Prism V: Beethoven, Webern, Bach (2023)

Danish String Quartet - Prism V: Beethoven, Webern, Bach (2023)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 257 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 146 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:00:30
Classical | Label: ECM Records

The Danish String Quartet bring their highly acclaimed Prism project to its conclusion. In each volume of this series a particular Bach fugue is connected to a late Beethoven quartet which, in turn, is connected to a quartet by a later master: “A beam of music is split through Beethoven’s prism,” in the Danes’ words. “The whole approach invites active, committed listening,” The Guardian observed. “The group plays with virtuosity, intensity and tenderness.” The project has been eight years in the making. Now on the fifth and final volume, Johann Sebastian Bach’s chorale prelude Vor deinen Thron tret ich hiermit “opens up like a flower” (as Paul Griffiths writes in the liner notes) to preface Ludwig van Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 16 in F major. Anton Webern’s early String Quartet, composed in 1905 – and inspired both by Beethoven and Schoenberg – follows, and the programme returns to Bach with Contrapunctus 14 from The Art of the Fugue.
Danish String Quartet - Prism I (2018) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Danish String Quartet - Prism I (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 78:09 minutes | 1.25 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital Booklet

For its third ECM release, the Danish String Quartet inaugurates a series of albums with the overarching title of Prism, in which the group will present one of Beethoven's late string quartets in the context of a related fugue by J.S. Bach as well as a linked masterwork from the quartet literature.
The Young Danish String Quartet - Carl Nielsen: String Quartets Vol.2 (2008) [Official Digital Download 24 bit/96kHz]

The Young Danish String Quartet - Carl Nielsen: String Quartets Vol.2 (2008)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time - 63:59 minutes | 1,38 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital Booklet

Here is the second volume of The Young Danish String Quartet's highly acclaimed miniseries of Carl Nielsen's string quartets. The first volume in The Young Danish String Quartet's mini-series of Carl Nielsen's quartets was selected as Editor's Choice in Gramophone last summer, and a number of prestigious magazines and newspapers from all over the world agreed: This interpretation of Nielsen's string quartets sheds brilliant new light on Denmark's national composer.
The Young Danish String Quartet - Carl Nielsen: String Quartets Vol.1 (2007) [Official Digital Download 24 bit/96kHz]

The Young Danish String Quartet - Carl Nielsen: String Quartets Vol.1 (2007)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time - 77:42 minutes | 1,67 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital Booklet

Carl Nielsen took Danish music into the 20th century, and his chamber music has a prominent position in the international repertoire. In spite of this Carl Nielsen only composed a limited number of chamber works for strings. This CD features two of his string quartets (in G minor and G major) and the only string quintet (in G major) he ever composed. All three works played a central role in Carl Nielsen's musical career, since they were major successes for the debuting composer and contributed to his initial breakthrough.

Danish String Quartet - Prism II (2019)  Music

Posted by delpotro at Sept. 12, 2019
Danish String Quartet - Prism II (2019)

Danish String Quartet - Prism II (2019)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 336 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 182 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:16:21
Classical | Label: ECM Records

The latest ECM album to feature pianist Ethan Iverson – following last year’s duo recording with saxophonist Mark Turner, Temporary Kings, and two lauded discs with the Billy Hart Quartet – presents the Brooklyn-based artist at the head of his own quartet in a program of standards and blues, recorded live at Manhattan’s famed Village Vanguard. Iverson’s quartet for Common Practice features as its prime melodic voice the veteran Tom Harrell, who was voted Trumpeter of the Year in 2018 by the U.S. Jazz Journalists Association. Iverson extols the quality of poetic “vulnerability” in Harrell’s playing, particularly in such ballads as “The Man I Love” and “Polka Dots and Moonbeams,” two of the album’s highlights. Common Practice also courses with an effervescent swing, thanks to the top-flight rhythm team of bassist Ben Street and drummer Eric McPherson, whose subtle invention helps drive Denzil Best’s bebop groover “Wee” and two irresistibly bluesy Iverson originals.