Pierre-Dominique Ponnelle
String Quartets No. 1 & 2 String Trio
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GEN 10163 EAN: 4260036251630
26.2.2010Special offer18.90 € 16.90 €
String quartets: an unassuming and introspective form of music-making with four usually elder gentlemen exulting over the works of long forgotten composers? Definitely not the case with the Gémeaux Quartet, who have released a masterful, unbridled and tender recording of three works by Pierre-Dominique Ponnelle on the Genuin classics label. The disc features the very highest standard in quartet playing culture and sounds that can be placed somewhere in the avant-garde as well as on the steppes of Central Asia, performed with improvisational freedom and the most demanding stringency. These are world premiere recordings and a rare listening experience. Not a trace of dust can to be seen on these dazzling string quartets!
"These are compositions which gestated in intensive ambivalence about one’s own life experiences."
ENSEMBLE, 3/2010
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- Pierre-Dominique Ponnelle (*1957)
String Quartet No. 1
Calmo - Allegretto-Adagio-Allegretto
- Largo lamentoso-Presto-Tempo primo
- Adagio
- Andante calmo
- Pierre-Dominique Ponnelle (*1957)
String Quartet No. 2
Andante (attacca) - Allegretto (attacca)
- Allegro (attacca)
- Presto (attaca)
- Allegretto calmo
- Pierre-Dominique Ponnelle (*1957)
String Trio
Andante calmo - Allegretto, un poco calmo - Trio I (Lento) - Allegro moderato - Trio II - Allegro - Trio III
- Intermezzo: Andante calmo
- Adagio
String quartets: an unassuming and introspective form of music-making with four usually elder gentlemen exulting over the works of long forgotten composers? Definitely not the case with the Gémeaux Quartet, who have released a masterful, unbridled and tender recording of three works by Pierre-Dominique Ponnelle on the Genuin classics label. The disc features the very highest standard in quartet playing culture and sounds that can be placed somewhere in the avant-garde as well as on the steppes of Central Asia, performed with improvisational freedom and the most demanding stringency. These are world premiere recordings and a rare listening experience. Not a trace of dust can to be seen on these dazzling string quartets!
"These are compositions which gestated in intensive ambivalence about one’s own life experiences."
ENSEMBLE, 3/2010