Ernst Helmuth Flammer: String Quartets Nos. 2, 3 & 7
1/24/2025, 3 Tracks, 1:15:08
Featuring
Karolina Piątkowska-Nowicka
Paweł Kapica
Michał Markiewicz
Krzysztof Pawłowski
NeoQuartet
Ernst Helmuth Flammer
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Performer Biography
The NeoQuartet also performs as the "Neo Electric Quartet," which they describe as the world's only electric string quartet playing new music, using electric instruments, synthesizers, and loop stations.
Performer Biography
The NeoQuartet organizes the annual NeoArte Synthesizer of Arts Festival in Gdansk, Poland, to popularize contemporary classical music and bring together renowned artists and musicians.
Composer's Artistic Vision
The composer, Ernst Helmuth Flammer, uses the string quartet form to explore the relationship between real time and cardinal time.
Composition History
String Quartet No. 7 was commissioned by the NeoQuartet, a Polish string quartet specializing in contemporary classical music, and funded by the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation.
Composition History
String Quartet No. 7, titled "La tempête / Der Sturm" (The Storm), is an indictment of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Performer Biography
The NeoQuartet, a Polish string quartet, is known for combining contemporary classical music with visual arts, modern dance, and electronics.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Ernst Helmuth Flammer views the string quartet as the "supreme discipline of all musical genres," allowing for the highest aesthetic expression of musical thought.
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