Hosokawa: String Quartets

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Hosokawa likens his music to Japanese calligraphy, and this exquisite anthology of works for string quartet the Quatuor Diotima draw all the lines with exemplary grace and reticence. — BBC Music Magazine, April 2013, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 14th Jan 2013
Catalogue No: NEOS11072
Label: Neos
Length: 69 minutes

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Quatuor Diotima

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The Sound of Silence:

mediated between these cultures as an essayist.

Hosokawa rarely turns to analogies from early Japanese lyric poetry to explain his music. Far more often he refers to the tradition of calligraphy. He ‘paints’ his compositions on the background of stillness, a canvas of silence.

The QUATUOR DIOTIMA was founded by graduates of the Paris and Lyon Conservatories. They were awarded First Prize at the FNAPEC Competition, Paris (1999) and the Contemporary Music Prize at the London String Quartet Competition (2000).

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April 2013

Hosokawa likens his music to Japanese calligraphy, and this exquisite anthology of works for string quartet the Quatuor Diotima draw all the lines with exemplary grace and reticence.

8th July 2013

Excellent, strongly committed and meticulously prepared performances from the Quatuor Diotima that do full justice to these often complex but also beautiful works.

Hosokawa: String Quartets

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