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Still Image
(CMCCD 17412, 2012)

The four pieces for string quartet recorded here, including a quintet with trombone and clarinet respectively, span a period of 1997-2011. Separately commissioned, the compositions have their own identity. At the same time, a multitude of relationships resonate across the works, contributing to a cyclical quality to the project as a whole. The two string quartets, throughcomposed in a single movement, unfold in juxtapositions of contrasting sections. The two quintets… Details Buy it!

À chacun sa miniature
(CQB 1113, 2011)

A vibrant portrait of the state of the art in Canadian new music. With its collection qb, the Bozzini Quartet gives life to the diverse aesthetics of our time. The music in this collection forms a continuous line: without imposing an aesthetic stance, these discs follow a deep yet ineffable continuity of purpose. Each disc is a window, an opening into a singular world: the soul of a place, a… Details Buy it! Download it!

Aberrare
(CQB 1112, 2011)

  • Prix Opus 2011-12: Disque de l’année — Finaliste

I think of my fundamental activity as a musician as listening, especially to music. And any music I might take part in making flows out from listening. So what can I say about my compositional practice listening to the music on this CD? It’s clear that I care about melody. I love melody: one on its own or two or more combined in any imaginable manner-monody, homophony, polyphony and heterophony… Details Buy it! Download it!

Sens(e) Absence
(CQB 1111, 2011)

Sehr langsam “Very slow” — a tempo indication, as well as the title of this piece. It characterizes the music itself, asking the listener for patience, for calm concentration, and for abandoning himself to the sound. This sound extends into the room, finding the listener-and it might also trigger a resonance in that inner room everybody finds within himself (Kafka), a place where the listener communicates with the inside of… Details Buy it!

Le mensonge et l’identité
(CQB 1110, 2011)

Le Mensonge et l’Identité, written with four hands by the duo Derome/Hétu, was premiered at Deutschlandfunk’s Forum Neue Musik in 2008. It was commissioned by the string quartet Bozzini Quartet, famous for their commitment towards creation. This political piece tackles the subject of making differences cohabit, in the form of a string quartet, calling for the musicians to move, improvise, play backed by a soundtrack and talk in four languages. Details Buy it! Download it!

Michel Gonneville: Hozhro
(CQB 0907, 2009)

Bozzini Quartet joins forces with composer Michel Gonneville for a unique contemporary opera on the “hot” issue of the ecological crisis, based on the thoughts of eminent Quebecois ecologist Pierre Dansereau. The music takes us deep into the universe of a woman haunted by that crisis, a woman who is trying to reclaim her inner harmony (“hozhro” in Navajo) and embarking on a process similar in ways to a North-American… Details Buy it! Download it!

Arbor Vitæ
(CQB 0806, 2008)

  • Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik: Bestenliste, Mai 2009 (German Record Critics’ Award: Quarterly Critics’ Choice, May 2009)
  • Prix Opus 2008-09: Disque de l’année — Finaliste

The sixth volume of the collection, Arbor Vitæ, pays homage to the Canadian-American composer James Tenney with performances of the complete quartets and quintets. These works were composed over a period of more than 50 years, from the first string quartet, written at 21, to the last, posthumous quartet. Through various acoustic and musical phenomena, Tenney creates broad, open musical spaces, making music that is both rigorous and sensual. We… Details Buy it! Download it!

Le livre des mélancolies
(ACD 22552, 2008)

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Und. Ging. Außen. Vorüber. Stücke 1992-2005
(WER 65612, 2007)

Experimental music, like Thomas Stiegler’s, invites the listener to find his way through unfamiliar acoustical environments. It is as if we were to arrive in a strange city and forced to find completely new bearings. Earlier experiences with other cities may be helpful, but they alone will not allow us to come to grips with the new city in all its uniqueness. Recognition (“that’s just like…”) immediately leads to distinctions… Details Buy it!

Canons + Hoquets
(CQB 0704, 2007)

Two contemporary artists, each strong and distinct. Skempton’s expansive canons offset Kondo’s continuous hockets. Jo Kondo: “I am interested in words more than in sentences, in sentences more than in paragraphs, in paragraphs more than in a whole page. Thus, it could be said that in music I am more concerned with each sound than with the phrases they create.” Howard Skempton: “The power of music to inspire confidence is… Details Buy it! Download it!

Jürg Frey: String Quartets
(EWR 0410, 2006)

“Material can be anonymous. Consider, for example, the middle voices in medieval hymn books: unadorned, not artful, a simple handiwork, a leisurely alternation of single notes. It might be a scale, or, beyond music, the stones of a wall, not artfully stacked, but simply and properly, the formal idea being nothing other than that of a wall. When I was working on the String Quartet (1988), I encountered the painting… Details Buy it!

Steve Reich: Different Trains
(CQB 0502, 2005)

On October 13th, 2005 DAME is proud to present the second Collection QB release: Different Trains by Steve Reich performed by Bozzini Quartet. A major opus in Reich’s body of work, Different Trains pioneered in 1968 a new form of composition developed from his earlier tape pieces It’s Gonna Rain (1965) and Come Out (1966). The idea for the piece came from Reich’s childhood. His parents separated when he was… Details Buy it! Download it!

Portrait Montréal
(CQB 0401, 2004)

  • Prix Opus 2004-05: Disque de l’année

Moving freely from avant-garde events to traditional concerts, the Bozzini Quartet was characterized by the Irish Times as a “group which gets its teeth into music: quiet or loud, fast or slow, these Canadian musicians play with compelling engagement.” With this new collection of recordings, Bozzini Quartet is pursuing its desire to explore the diversity of contemporary music. This inaugural volume of the collection,“Portrait Montréal,” pays homage to the richness… Details Buy it! Download it!

Hardscrabble Songs
(IS 238, 2002)

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