Sciarrino: Quartetto No. 7 & No. 8 & Sei Quartetti Brevi

Quartetto Prometeo project a very composer-specific sound world; vibrato-less rustling, clean-cut lines, a deadpan/aloof tone that renews expressivity. Sciarrino wrote his Eighth Quartet for... — Gramophone Magazine, June 2013 More…

Release Date: 30th Mar 2015
Catalogue No: KAI0013212
Label: Kairos
Length: 46 minutes

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Sciarrino: Quartetto No. 7

Work length9:42

Quartetto Prometeo

Sciarrino: Quartetto No. 8

Work length18:27

Quartetto Prometeo

Sciarrino: Sei Quartetti Brevi

Work length4:10

Quartetto Prometeo
Recorded: 11-13 February 2010
Recording Venue: Musikstudio 1, Grosser Sendesaal of Saarlandischer Rundfunk

Sciarrino: Sei Quartetti Brevi

Work length7:45

Quartetto Prometeo

Track length1:25

III

Track length3:55

Track length2:25

Sciarrino: Sei Quartetti Brevi

Work length3:04

Quartetto Prometeo

Sciarrino: Sei quartetti brevi: VI

Work length3:16

Quartetto Prometeo

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Kairos is proud to announce the release of three string quartets by renowned Italian composer Salvatore Sciarrino, recorded by the brilliant Quartetto Prometeo. The group has worked closely with the composer for years, leading him to dedicate two pieces to it, one of which is included on this CD, the Quartetto No. 8.

The three quartets, Quartetto No. 7, Quartetto No.8, and Sei quartette brevi were written over a time span of fortyone years, but despite this long range of time, Sciarrino’s idiosyncratic musicality is recognizable in every piece.

However, each of the three pieces included in this collection is starkly individual, an ‘interruption’ within the ‘continuity’ of Sciarrino’s oeuvre. In Quartetto No. 7, we are confronted with the composer’s attempt to transfer techniques he developed for voice writing to strings, and in Sei quartette brevi with the enduring legacy of both Beethoven and the post-war avant-garde. This concept of a conscious historical dialog through a personal filter is also present in the Quartetto No.8.

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June 2013

Quartetto Prometeo project a very composer-specific sound world; vibrato-less rustling, clean-cut lines, a deadpan/aloof tone that renews expressivity. Sciarrino wrote his Eighth Quartet for the group in 2008 and they savour its labyrinths and hidden melodies.

14th March 2013

They are beautiful, haunting pieces; an attempt, Sciarrino says, to apply to instruments what he has developed in his music for voices. The Quartetto Prometeo plays them with just the right sense of bewitching allure.

Sciarrino: Quartetto No. 7 & No. 8 & Sei Quartetti Brevi

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