Music of Fred Lerdahl Volume 3: String Quartets 1, 2 & 3

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Lerdahl turns out to be a highly inventive string writer rather than a masterly one...he writes for the four instruments as if they were passing through a kaleidoscope with phrases, gestures,... — International Record Review, February 2012 More…

Release Date: 31st Oct 2011
Catalogue No: BRIDGE9352
Label: Bridge
Series: Music of Fred Lerdahl
Length: 67 minutes

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Lerdahl: String Quartet No. 1 (1978 Version)

Work length22:38

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Daedalus Quartet

Lerdahl: String Quartet No. 2 (2010 Version)

Work length23:11

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Daedalus Quartet

Lerdahl: String Quartet No. 3

Work length22:01

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Daedalus Quartet

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This is the first recording of Fred Lerdahl's complete cycle of three string quartets, which he wrote between 1978 and 2008. The Daedalus's virtuosic complete traversal of the cycle (lasting more than an hour) marks an important event in American chamber music. Fred Lerdahl's music can also be heard on BRIDGE9191 and BRIDGE9269.

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February 2012

Lerdahl turns out to be a highly inventive string writer rather than a masterly one...he writes for the four instruments as if they were passing through a kaleidoscope with phrases, gestures, sonorities rocketing from one player or combination to another...Not easy music, then; indeed, it's something of a white-knuckle ride...[I] have appreciated its rude vigour more with each listening.

June 2012

Lerdahl's music poses challenges to listener and performer alike. The idiom is frankly atonal, yet not mercilessly so...Admirers of the string quartets of Schoenberg, Bartók, Webern or Schnittke should feel at home here...As far as the Daedalus Quartet's interpretation goes, they deal with the leaps in dynamics, high tempo spurts, awkward rhythms and unpredictable phrasing with ease and poise

4th December 2011

The American Fred Lerdahl (b1943) writes learned tomes on musical cognition, but is also a fluent, impressive composer, as this disc attests...Lerdahl’s idiom is penetrating without being severe, post-Bergian, rather sweet at times. The writing has a rhetorical pungency well realised by these players.

Music of Fred Lerdahl Volume 3

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