Insights To-Morrow: Works by Viera Janárčeková, Márton Illés & Lisa Streich

Featuring

Barbara Streil
Justyna Śliwa
Rostislav Kozhevnikov
Teemu Myöhänen
Viera Janárčeková
Márton Illés

Lisa Streich

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Composition History

The works on this album were commissioned by the Asasello-Quartett as part of a larger project engaging with Arnold Schoenberg's string quartets.

Performer Biography

The Asasello-Quartett, a European ensemble, was founded in 2000 by students in Walter Levin's chamber music class at the Basel Music Academy.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Lisa Streich's work (ENGEL, . . .) NOCH TASTEND explores the unpredictable 'in-between sounds' concealed behind written notes, with the music itself acting as another performer.

Composer Biography

Viera Janárčeková, born in former Czechoslovakia, emigrated to West Germany in 1972 for political reasons and expanded her compositional horizons at the Darmstadt summer courses.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Márton Illés, the composer of String Quartet No. 3, aims to adapt contemporary string techniques to his own musical language, creating forms with clear physiognomy and expressive precision.

Compositional Technique

Viera Janárčeková's String Quartet No. 8, 'entrückt', is written in slight scordatura, with the fourth strings retuned to specific overtones of D, and uses four complementary microtonal modes.