IDAGIO | Coates: String Quartet No. 9 - Sonata for Violin Solo

Featuring

Peter Sheppard Skærved
Mihailo Trandafilovski
Morgan Goff
Neil Heyde
Roderick Chadwick
Kreutzer Quartet

Gloria Coates

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Composer Biography

Gloria Coates, an American composer, has written fifteen symphonies, tying her with Shostakovich and exceeding the number written by any other woman composer.

Recording & Production

This album is a co-production with Deutschlandfunk Radio and The Royal Academy of Music, London, and features a world première recording of String Quartet No. 9.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Gloria Coates's use of clusters and quarter-tones in her chamber works is described as "solidly American," expressing a "rustic stolidity" and a willingness to go off the beaten path.

Compositional Technique

A characteristic technique in Gloria Coates's string quartets, including the Ninth, is detuning the first violin and viola by a quarter-tone, creating an uneasy, thick sound.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Gloria Coates is known for writing music that is simple, instantly memorable, and bizarre, often mixing disparate elements like plain triads and tone clusters.

Performer Biography

Peter Sheppard Skærved, a violinist on this recording, is a Research Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music, London, and plays the 1699 'Adelina Crespi' Stradivari.

Compositional Technique

The first movement of Gloria Coates's String Quartet No. 9 is a canon of both melodies and textures, and an almost-palindrome, where the first half repeats backwards.