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Jürg Frey: String Quartets
(EWR 0410, 2006)

Description

[traduction française non disponible]

“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 of Agnes Martin. I saw clear-cut forms, not overgrown with rhetoric and figuration. Instead, sensuality, radiance and intensity gripped the entire space.

There was a kind of visibility to her art, which I felt corresponded to the audibility in my music. Audibility: the moment when sound waves move in space and the air touches the body. The eardrum is the sensory connection between the outside and the inside world: we hear the sound and the composition.

Over the years it became more and more clear to me, that there is no anonymous material - each material has its shape, and as soon as it exists in space and time, it carries a distinct handwriting. Anonymous material is rather an idea that brings the work to a point where concentration on what is essential becomes possible, and allows one to feel that he is starting from zero.” —Jürg Frey (English Translation: Michael Pisaro)

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Critiques

«Ce disque est terriblement beau et exsude littéralement d’intensité et de sensualité. Ces musiciens jouent avec grande passion une musique difficile.»

Richard Pinnell Blog (RU), août 2007

«Ce quatuor enchanteur nous rappelle certains passages a cappella du Requiem de Verdi

La Folia (ÉU), décembre 2006

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