Cantante e tranquillo

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it's all expertly played, even if the Bach is more Romantic in its use of vibrato than might be expected nowadays. — BBC Music Magazine, August 2015, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 30th Mar 2015
Catalogue No: 4811052
Label: ECM
Series: New Series
Length: 64 minutes

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Beethoven: String Quartet In F, Op. 135

Work length7:19

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Keller Quartet (string quartet), Andras Keller (violin), Zsófia Környei (violin), Zoltan Gal (viola), Judit Szabó (cello)
Recorded: 2012-11
Recording Venue: Radio Studio DRS, Zürich

3. Lento assai, cantante e tranquillo

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Ligeti: String Quartet No. 2

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Keller Quartet (string quartet), Andras Keller (violin), Zsófia Környei (violin), Zoltan Gal (viola), Judit Szabó (cello)
Recorded: 2011-10
Recording Venue: Radio Studio DRS, Zürich

V. Allegro con delicatezza - stets sehr mild

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Excerpt, Bach, J S: The Art of Fugue, BWV1080

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Keller Quartet (string quartet), Andras Keller (violin), Janos Pilz (violin), Zoltan Gal (viola), Ottó Kertész (cello)
Recorded: 1997
Recording Venue: Stadttheater Eichstatt

Contrapunctus 1

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Kurtág: Aus der Ferne V

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Keller Quartet (string quartet), Andras Keller (violin), Zsófia Környei (violin), Zoltan Gal (viola), Judit Szabó (cello)
Recorded: 2012-11
Recording Venue: Radio Studio DRS, Zürich

Schnittke: Piano Quintet (1972-6)

Work length4:22

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Keller Quartet (string quartet), Alexei Lubimov (piano), Andras Keller (violin), Janos Pilz (violin), Zoltan Gal (viola), Judit Szabó (cello)
Recorded: 2000-06-05
Recording Venue: Radio Studio DRS, Zürich

5. Moderato pastorale

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Knaifel: In Air Clear And Unseen

Work length7:14

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Keller Quartet (string quartet), Andras Keller (violin), Janos Pilz (violin), Zoltan Gal (viola), Judit Szabó (cello)
Recorded: 2000-10
Recording Venue: Radio Studio DRS, Zürich

2. An Autumn Evening

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Excerpt, Bach, J S: The Art of Fugue, BWV1080

Work length10:30

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Keller Quartet (string quartet), Andras Keller (violin), Janos Pilz (violin), Zoltan Gal (viola), Ottó Kertész (cello)
Recorded: 1997
Recording Venue: Stadttheater Eichstatt

Contrapunctus 14

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Kurtág: Officium breve in memoriam Andreae Szervánsky, Op. 28

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Keller Quartet (string quartet), Andras Keller (violin), Janos Pilz (violin), Zoltan Gal (viola), Ottó Kertész (cello)
Recorded: 1995
Recording Venue: Casino Zögernitz, Vienna

15. Arioso Interrotto (di Endre Szervánszky) - Larghetto

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Beethoven: Quartet No. 13 In B Flat, Op. 130

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Keller Quartet (string quartet), Andras Keller (violin), Zsófia Környei (violin), Zoltan Gal (viola), Judit Szabó (cello)
Recorded: 2012-11
Recording Venue: Radio Studio DRS, Zürich

V: Cavatina: Adagio molto espressivo

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Kurtág: Flowers We Are - for Miyako

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Keller Quartet (string quartet), Andras Keller (violin), Zoltan Gal (viola), Judit Szabó (cello)
Recorded: 2012-11
Recording Venue: Radio Studio DRS, Zürich

Kurtág: Hommage à Bach

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Keller Quartet (string quartet), Andras Keller (violin), Zoltan Gal (viola), Judit Szabó (cello)
Recorded: 2012-11
Recording Venue: Radio Studio DRS, Zürich

Kurtág: Ligatura Y

Work length2:29

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Keller Quartet (string quartet), Andras Keller (violin), Zoltan Gal (viola), Judit Szabó (cello)
Recorded: 2012-11
Recording Venue: Radio Studio DRS, Zürich

Kurtág: Ligatura - Message to Frances-Marie Op. 31b

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Keller Quartet (string quartet), Andras Keller (violin), Zsófia Környei (violin)
Recorded: 2012-11
Recording Venue: Radio Studio DRS, Zürich

Beethoven: String Quartet In F, Op. 135

Work length7:19

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Keller Quartet (string quartet), Andras Keller (violin), Zsófia Környei (violin), Zoltan Gal (viola), Judit Szabó (cello)
Recorded: 2012-11
Recording Venue: Radio Studio DRS, Zürich

3. Lento assai, cantante e tranquillo

Track length7:19

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‘Cantante e tranquillo’ is an exquisite album of slow movements mostly written for string quartet which takes its title from Beethoven’s marking for the lento of his final Quartet, Op 135, two performances of which bookend the disc. In between comes music by Bach, Ligeti, Kurtág, Schnittke, Knaifel - plus more Beethoven.

Producer Manfred Eicher explains the genesis of the recording: “In conversation with András Keller [leader of the quartet] we envisioned a musical programme based entirely on slow movements. Together we began reviewing the recordings we had made over the last 20 years, juxtaposing works of different historical eras, uncovering correspondences between composers of the past and the present.

“As a contextual frame for the project we decided to record the slow movements of Beethoven’s op.130 and op.135, added new recordings of Kurtág and integrated newer and older interpretations of Alexander Knaifel, Ligeti and Bach to the album. This personal selection of remarkable music documents the ensemble’s growth, always approaching the work with both integrity and imagination, rooted in the gesture of listening.”

And Wolfgang Sandner concludes his liner note: “A wistful charm imbues this entire recording of pieces which, though not written together, seem to have been predestined for each other. The sounds are self-evident and self-explanatory. We hear them as music, as beautiful music, as great music.”

The Keller Quartett was founded in 1987 in Budapest at the Liszt Conservatory of Music, where its members studied with Sandór Devich, András Mihály and György Kurtág. All three of these distinguished professors were mentors, and Kurtág continues to compose music for them. Besides the composers on this album, members of the quartet have also been heard on ECM recordings of Bartók, Shostakovich and Barber.

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August 2015

it's all expertly played, even if the Bach is more Romantic in its use of vibrato than might be expected nowadays.

26th April 2015

Played with warmth and poise, this appealing recital combines previously released material with new recordings of Bach (from The Art of Fugue), Beethoven (two glorious performances of Op 135’s slow movement and Op 135’s famous Cavatina).

5th April 2015

Highlights are the hypnotic pastoral from Schnittke’s Piano Quintet with Alexei Lubimov, and a sequence of Kurtág miniatures. Good for a quiet night in.

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