Between Two Worlds: Lassus, Beethoven, Adès & Dowland
4/29/2022, 11 Tracks, 1:06:41
Featuring
Sini Simonen
Daniel Roberts
Charlotte Bonneton
Christopher Graves
Castalian String Quartet
Orlando di Lasso
Ludwig van Beethoven
Thomas Adès
John Dowland
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Recording & Production
This album was recorded in Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh, in June 2021, with Paul Baxter as the Producer/Engineer.
Performer Biography
The Castalian String Quartet, formed in 2011, is named after the Castalian Spring in the ancient city of Delphi, a mythological source of poetic inspiration.
Performer Biography
The Castalian String Quartet won 1st Prize at the 2015 Lyon Chamber Music Competition and 3rd Prize at the 2016 Banff International String Quartet Competition.
Compositional Technique
Thomas Adès's quartet, The Four Quarters, features a unique time signature of 25/16 in its final movement, "The Twenty-fifth Hour," representing a fictional time of day.
Compositional Technique
Orlande de Lassus, a Franco-Flemish composer who served at the Bavarian court, was known for his prolific contribution to the French chanson genre, which ranged from bawdy to devotional subjects.
Album & Artwork
The album's title, "Between Two Worlds," and its concept are inspired by T.S. Eliot's idea of existing in time and beyond time, which he heard in Beethoven's late quartets.
Compositional Technique
In his String Quartet No. 15, Op. 132, Beethoven uses the Lydian mode in the slow movement, placing the music in a tonal hinterland between major and minor keys.
