Peteris Vasks: String Quartet No. 4
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Composer: Peteris VasksPerformer: Kronos Quartet
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2003-08-19
Music Label: Nonesuch
Soundtracks:
- I. Elegy
- II. Toccata I
- III. Chorale
- IV. Toccata II
- V. Meditation
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Free Music Review: Bravo,
Hit: 4 Stars
What a great string quartet. I sat transfixed by Vasks writing. How wonderful the music develops, hints of Latvian floksongs inform much of the quieter movements and when the crunchy, disonant Toccata's 1 & 2 arrive, the listner is ready for it. The ending is marvelous bit of composition in which the violins perform a morendo as the gliss (sorry, I play trombone and this is the best I can do to describe it) upward into silence....I will be purchasing the violin concerto and other string quartets of Vasks as the editorial review suggests. This is wonderful 20th century music.
Peteris Vasks: String Quartet No. 4 Poster
The contemporary Latvian composer Peteris Vasks has said "There has been so much bloodshed and destruction, and yet love's power and idealism have helped to keep the world in balance. I wanted to speak of these things in my new quartet; not from the sidelines, but with direct emotion and sensitivity," and, indeed, from the folksy melodies through to chaos and back again which he creates in this, his fourth quartet, we are taken through a myriad of feelings. His music is always intense and he knows how to build to a climax, relax, and return the listener to a heightened awareness of drama, and so forth. His meditative moments will remind listeners of Arvo P?rt; his disruptive passages bring Shostakovitch to mind. But the textures, so beautifully brought out by the great Kronos Quartet, are uniquely Vasks' and when, at the work's conclusion, after a return to the folk melody of the first movement, the strings fly up to their highest registers and simply disappear into the ethos, the effect is magical and, somehow, comforting. It's similar to the way he ends his violin concerto and it's just as effective. A fascinating release. --Robert LevineFull title - Peteris Vasks - String Quartet No. 4. Vasks' Fourth String Quartet, composed of five movements, was commissioned for the Kronos Quartet and was premiered in 2000 at the Theatre de la Ville in Paris. A somber reflection on the passing century, it incorporates Latvian folk songs, its movements variously meditative, strident, restless, subdued. Slipcase. Nonesuch. 2003.
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