Manifesto on Love
The Winner of the ARD Music Competition 2022 present their debut album
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GEN 24878 EAN: 4260036258783
7.6.2024 18.90 €
As 1st prize winner of the 2022 ARD Music Competition, the Barbican Quartet is one of the most sought-after young string quartet formations. The internationally composed ensemble is now releasing its debut album on GENUIN: "Manifesto on Love", with works by Leoš Janácek and Robert Schumann. The contrast between Schumann's expansive musical lines and Janácek’s nervous surfaces and ecstatic outbursts could not be greater – yet the Barbican Quartet unites them as expressions of human need for love, for togetherness. Two works of the most intimate musical genre played at a phenomenal level!
Ö1 Vorgestellt
"On their debut album, the Barbican Quartet presents lovingly harmonised and passionate string quartet playing at the highest level." Review by Daniela Fietzek, August 7, 2024
Rondo
"The playing is breathtakingly magnificent. And with Schumann's "Wenn ich ein Vöglein wär", the quartet concludes this equally award-winning album simply marvellously - and with heartfelt singing." Review by Guido Fischer, August 03, 2024
BR-Klassik
"[...] ...the four also play Schumann's third string quartet brilliantly. The Barbicans turn the slow third movement into the musical epitome of romantic longing, which repeatedly leads them into darkness and abysses." Review by Oswald Beaujean, June 14, 2024
June 12, 2024: The album received the Supersonic Award from Pizzicato.
Pizzicato
"You can sense that the profound emotional portrayals in the two quartets come to the Barbican Quartet as if from real life and that they use them to create their own experiences in sound. In doing so, they sensitively open themselves up to the music and offer exhilarating, sometimes even a little boiling interpretations that cannot leave you cold." Review by Uwe Krusch, June 12, 2024
NDR Kultur - Der Sonntag
"The interpretation is gripping. [...] The ensemble shows a clear signature: with the very individual sound, with the emotional interpretations, but also with the program." Marcus Stäbler chose 'Manifesto on Love' as the album of the week, June 9, 2024
Barbican Quartet String quartet
As 1st prize winner of the 2022 ARD Music Competition, the Barbican Quartet is one of the most sought-after young string quartet formations. The internationally composed ensemble is now releasing its debut album on GENUIN: "Manifesto on Love", with works by Leoš Janácek and Robert Schumann. The contrast between Schumann's expansive musical lines and Janácek’s nervous surfaces and ecstatic outbursts could not be greater – yet the Barbican Quartet unites them as expressions of human need for love, for togetherness. Two works of the most intimate musical genre played at a phenomenal level!
Ö1 Vorgestellt
"On their debut album, the Barbican Quartet presents lovingly harmonised and passionate string quartet playing at the highest level." Review by Daniela Fietzek, August 7, 2024
Rondo
"The playing is breathtakingly magnificent. And with Schumann's "Wenn ich ein Vöglein wär", the quartet concludes this equally award-winning album simply marvellously - and with heartfelt singing." Review by Guido Fischer, August 03, 2024
BR-Klassik
"[...] ...the four also play Schumann's third string quartet brilliantly. The Barbicans turn the slow third movement into the musical epitome of romantic longing, which repeatedly leads them into darkness and abysses." Review by Oswald Beaujean, June 14, 2024
June 12, 2024: The album received the Supersonic Award from Pizzicato.
Pizzicato
"You can sense that the profound emotional portrayals in the two quartets come to the Barbican Quartet as if from real life and that they use them to create their own experiences in sound. In doing so, they sensitively open themselves up to the music and offer exhilarating, sometimes even a little boiling interpretations that cannot leave you cold." Review by Uwe Krusch, June 12, 2024
NDR Kultur - Der Sonntag
"The interpretation is gripping. [...] The ensemble shows a clear signature: with the very individual sound, with the emotional interpretations, but also with the program." Marcus Stäbler chose 'Manifesto on Love' as the album of the week, June 9, 2024
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Tracklist
- Leoš Janácek (1854–1928)
String Quartet No. 2 “Listy duverné” (Intimate Letters)
I. Andante – Con moto – Allegro - II. Adagio – Vivace
- III. Moderato – Andante – Adagio
- IV. Allegro – Andante – Adagio
- Dobrinka Tabakova (*1980)
The Ear of Grain - Robert Schumann (1810–1856)
String Quartet No. 3, Op. 41 in A major
Andante espressivo – Allegro molto moderato - Assai agitato
- Adagio molto
- Finale. Allegro molto vivace – Quasi Trio
- Robert Schumann
3 Zweistimmige Lieder, Op. 43/1
Wenn ich ein Vöglein wär
As 1st prize winner of the 2022 ARD Music Competition, the Barbican Quartet is one of the most sought-after young string quartet formations. The internationally composed ensemble is now releasing its debut album on GENUIN: "Manifesto on Love", with works by Leoš Janácek and Robert Schumann. The contrast between Schumann's expansive musical lines and Janácek’s nervous surfaces and ecstatic outbursts could not be greater – yet the Barbican Quartet unites them as expressions of human need for love, for togetherness. Two works of the most intimate musical genre played at a phenomenal level!
Ö1 Vorgestellt
"On their debut album, the Barbican Quartet presents lovingly harmonised and passionate string quartet playing at the highest level." Review by Daniela Fietzek, August 7, 2024
Rondo
"The playing is breathtakingly magnificent. And with Schumann's "Wenn ich ein Vöglein wär", the quartet concludes this equally award-winning album simply marvellously - and with heartfelt singing." Review by Guido Fischer, August 03, 2024
BR-Klassik
"[...] ...the four also play Schumann's third string quartet brilliantly. The Barbicans turn the slow third movement into the musical epitome of romantic longing, which repeatedly leads them into darkness and abysses." Review by Oswald Beaujean, June 14, 2024
June 12, 2024: The album received the Supersonic Award from Pizzicato.
Pizzicato
"You can sense that the profound emotional portrayals in the two quartets come to the Barbican Quartet as if from real life and that they use them to create their own experiences in sound. In doing so, they sensitively open themselves up to the music and offer exhilarating, sometimes even a little boiling interpretations that cannot leave you cold." Review by Uwe Krusch, June 12, 2024
NDR Kultur - Der Sonntag
"The interpretation is gripping. [...] The ensemble shows a clear signature: with the very individual sound, with the emotional interpretations, but also with the program." Marcus Stäbler chose 'Manifesto on Love' as the album of the week, June 9, 2024