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String quartets [4]: Holmboes fifth SQ
2008-02-05 15:52:00 Time to pick up the thread with this other recently neglected part of my blog. For the next installment in the string quartet series, we stay in Scandinavia. Vagn Holmboe (1909-1996) is possibly the most important composer to come from Denmark after Carl Nielsen. In particular his symphonies, concertos and string quartets are of sustained high quality. I selected his fifth string quartet (op66, from 1955), which is in three movements: [1] Pesante - Fluente, [2] Adagio, [3] Energico. This version is by the Kontra Quartet, and is taken from a Marco Polo Dacapo CD (8224026), which also contains the second and sixth string quartets.MP3: Holmboes fifth string quartet.
String quartets [3]: Johansens SQ
2007-10-10 21:17:00 There is more to Norwegian classical music than Grieg. In the symphonies series we already encountered Svendsen, now it is time to focus on David Monrad Johansen (1888-1974), a pupil of Humperdinck. Like many of his compatriots, his musical roots are in the nationalist folk music, but his treatment of these influences is rather modern, with dissonances adding spice. His only string quartet (op36) dates from 1969, and shows his mastery of the counterpoint. This version is by the Oslo string quartet. It is taken from a Naxos CD (8550879) that also includes two string quartets by Grieg.The movements:1. Agitato - Allegro [4:22]2. Allegro vivace [3:07]3. Largo [5:49]4. Agitato [3:13]MP3 link (Sharebee): Johansens string quartet.
Dave Grohl May Be Fond Of String Quartets, But Foo Fighters Haven't Gone So
2007-07-27 14:01:00 Dave Grohl says Foo Fighters haven't gone soft, despite the serious sound, heavy lyrics and pretty title of their upcoming Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace.
T.S. Eliot -Four Quartets- East Cocker-
2007-01-02 04:16:01 Four QuartetsThomas Stearns Eliot (Gran Bretaņa, 1888-1965)East Cocker In my beginning is my end. In successionHouses rise and fall, crumble, are extended,Are removed, destroyed, restored, or in their placeIs an open field, or a factory, or a by-pass.Old stone to new building, old timber to new fires,Old fires to ashes, and ashes to the earthWhich is already flesh, fur and faeces,Bone of man and beast, cornstalk and leaf.Houses live and die: there is a time for buildingAnd a time for living and for generationAnd a time for the wind to break the loosened paneAnd to shake the wainscot where the field-mouse trotsAnd to shake the tattered arras woven with a silent motto.In my beginning is my end. Now the light fallsAcross the open field,, leaving the deep laneShuttered with branches, dark in the afternoon,Where you lean against a bank while a van passes,And the deep lane insists on the directionInto the village, in the elctric heatHypnotised. In a warm haze the sultry lightIs absorbed, ...
By: Poemas en ingles
T.S. Eliot -Four Quartets- The dry savages-
2007-01-02 04:16:01 Four QuartetsThomas Stearns Eliot (Gran Bretaņa, 1888-1965)The dry salvagesI do not know much about gods; but I think that the riverIs a strong brown god - sullen, untamed and intractable,Patient to some degree, at first recognised as a frontier;Useful, untrustworthy, as a conveyor of commerce;The only a problem confronting the builder of bridges.The problem once solved, the brown god is almost forgottenBy the dwellers in cities - ever, however, implacable.Keeping his seasons, and rages, destroyer, reminderOf what men choose to forget. Unhonoured, unpropitiatedBy worshippers of the machine, but waiting, watching and waiting.His rhythm was present in the nursery bedroom,In the rank ailanthus of the April dooryard,In the smell of grapes on the autumn table,And the evening circle in the winter gaslight.The river is within us, the sea is all about us;The sea is the land's edge also, the granite,Into which it reaches, the beaches where it tossesIts hints of earlier and other creation:Th...
By: Poemas en ingles
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