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Carter, E.: String Quartets Nos. 1 and 5

7/27/2008, 17 Tracks, 1:00:31

Featuring

  • Simin Ganatra
  • Sibbi Bernhardsson
  • Masumi Per Rostad
  • Brandon Vamos
  • Pacifica Quartet
  • Elliott Carter

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Performer Biography

The Pacifica Quartet, known for its virtuosity and daring repertory, has won top prizes in international competitions including the Cleveland Quartet Award and the Naumburg.

Source: Booklet

Composition History

Elliott Carter's Fifth String Quartet is a 'farewell' to his previous four quartets and an exploration of a new vision, written after realizing he would exhaust his previous compositional direction.

Source: Booklet

Composer Biography

Elliott Carter, an American composer, was personally encouraged by Charles Ives and excited by modernists like Skryabin, Stravinsky, Berg, and Varèse.

Source: Booklet

Compositional Technique

Elliott Carter's First String Quartet is complex in its rhythmic relationships and uncompromising in its gritty harmonic language, without much concern for ease of playing or listening.

Source: Booklet

Composer's Artistic Vision

Elliott Carter views modernism as a continuous quest for new modes of sound and expression, breaking away from convention.

Source: Booklet

Composition History

Elliott Carter's First String Quartet was initially conceived after he read about a composition prize in Liège, Belgium, drawing ideas from his Cello Sonata.

Source: Booklet

Instruments

The cellist of the Pacifica Quartet, Brandon Vamos, plays a Gasparo da Salo cello made in Brescia around 1580.

Source: Booklet

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