Eröd: String Quartets

Featuring

Péter Mező
Csongor Veér
Péter Kondor
Mátyás Ölveti
Accord Quartet
Iván Erőd

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Composition History

The string quartet is a 'supreme discipline' that runs like a common thread through Iván Eröd's entire compositional output, from his student days to the present.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Iván Eröd defines his compositional credo as 'Art is communication,' aiming for his music to be heard and understood by a large number of people, embracing melody, form, and effect.

Compositional Technique

Iván Eröd's Second String Quartet, Op. 26, is partly structured according to the law of the golden ratio, a compositional principle also found in many of his other works.

Composer Biography

Iván Eröd fled Hungary to Austria in December 1956 due to the politically hopeless situation after the suppression of the revolution against the Communist regime.

Composer Biography

Iván Eröd, born in Budapest in 1936, experienced the horrors of the Holocaust as a child, losing several family members including his grandparents and brother.

Compositional Technique

Iván Eröd's First String Quartet, Op. 18, incorporates 'gypsy' scales (seven-tone scales with two augmented second intervals) in its second and third movements, giving it a Hungarian character.

Performer Biography

The Accord Quartet, formed in 2001 by students of the Franz Liszt Academy, has won numerous national and international prizes, including the Brahms Competition and the Junior Prima Prize.