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Arditti String Quartet|Conlon Nancarrow : Quartets and Studies

Conlon Nancarrow : Quartets and Studies

Arditti Quartet

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Any ensemble that takes on transcriptions of Nancarrow's player piano music deserves huge credit for bravery, and if it can pull it off, awestruck admiration. The Arditti Quartet programs both transcriptions of his works for player piano and works originally written for live performers, plus a duet for violin and player piano and a player piano solo. The Arditti, which has set before itself the most daunting musical challenges of the era since its founding in 1974, succeeds beautifully in maintaining the distinctive balancing act between the seeming chaos and systematic rigor Nancarrow demands. This high-wire act is most fear-inducing in Ivar Mikhashoff's arrangement of Study for Player piano No. 15, which sounds perilously close to the verge of spinning out of control, but the players miraculously bring the apparently unrelated lines to a tidy and satisfying cadence. Many of Nancarrow's works are canons, often using stupefyingly complex ratios (such as the square root of two to two) to determine the tempo of the various entries of the subject. His String Quartet No. 3 (1987), one of a handful of works he wrote for live performers rather than for player piano, uses the ratio of three to four to five to six. Each player's ability to maintain independence of tempo while remaining correctly related to the timing of the other three players is simply dazzling. Technical brilliance is not the Arditti's only triumph here; it plays with gorgeously full tone and subtly nuanced phrasing, giving the transcriptions a life they can never have when performed by a mechanical instrument. Nancarrow would have been proud, and probably amazed.

© TiVo

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Arditti String Quartet

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String Quartet No. 1 (ca. 1942) (Conlon Nancarrow)

1
I. Allegro molto
Arditti String Quartet
00:02:33

Arditti Quartet (Irvine Arditti, Violin - Graeme Jennings, Violin - Ralf Ehlers, Viola - Rohan de Saram, Cello) - Conlon Nancarrow, Composer

(C) 2007 Wergo (P) 2007 Wergo

2
II. Andante moderato
Arditti String Quartet
00:03:33

Arditti Quartet (Irvine Arditti, Violin - Graeme Jennings, Violin - Ralf Ehlers, Viola - Rohan de Saram, Cello) - Conlon Nancarrow, Composer

(C) 2007 Wergo (P) 2007 Wergo

3
III. Prestissimo
Arditti String Quartet
00:05:04

Arditti Quartet (Irvine Arditti, Violin - Graeme Jennings, Violin - Ralf Ehlers, Viola - Rohan de Saram, Cello) - Conlon Nancarrow, Composer

(C) 2007 Wergo (P) 2007 Wergo

String Quartet No. 3 (Canon 3/4/5/6 - 1987) (Conlon Nancarrow)

4
A Measure = 72
Arditti String Quartet
00:02:13

Arditti Quartet (Irvine Arditti, Violin - Graeme Jennings, Violin - Ralf Ehlers, Viola - Rohan de Saram, Cello) - Conlon Nancarrow, Composer

(C) 2007 Wergo (P) 2007 Wergo

5
B Measure = 50
Arditti String Quartet
00:05:51

Arditti Quartet (Irvine Arditti, Violin - Graeme Jennings, Violin - Ralf Ehlers, Viola - Rohan de Saram, Cello) - Conlon Nancarrow, Composer

(C) 2007 Wergo (P) 2007 Wergo

6
C Measure = 92
Arditti String Quartet
00:06:05

Arditti Quartet (Irvine Arditti, Violin - Graeme Jennings, Violin - Ralf Ehlers, Viola - Rohan de Saram, Cello) - Conlon Nancarrow, Composer

(C) 2007 Wergo (P) 2007 Wergo

Study No. 15 (Version for Strings) (Conlon Nancarrow)

7
Study No. 15 (ca.1955 - Arranged for String Quartet 1987) (First recording)
Arditti String Quartet
00:01:35

Arditti Quartet (Irvine Arditti, Violin - Graeme Jennings, Violin - Ralf Ehlers, Viola - Rohan de Saram, Cello) - Conlon Nancarrow, Composer - Yvar Mikhashoff, Arranger

(C) 2007 Wergo (P) 2007 Wergo

Study No. 31 (Version for Strings) (Conlon Nancarrow)

8
Study No. 31 (ca.1968 - Arranged for String Quartet 2003) (First recording)
Arditti String Quartet
00:02:43

Arditti Quartet (Irvine Arditti, Violin - Graeme Jennings, Violin - Ralf Ehlers, Viola - Rohan de Saram, Cello) - Conlon Nancarrow, Composer - Paul Usher, Arranger

(C) 2007 Wergo (P) 2007 Wergo

Study No. 33 (Version for Strings) (Conlon Nancarrow)

9
Study No. 33 (ca.1968 - Arranged for String Quartet 2003) (First recording)
Arditti String Quartet
00:07:47

Arditti Quartet (Irvine Arditti, Violin - Graeme Jennings, Violin - Ralf Ehlers, Viola - Rohan de Saram, Cello) - Conlon Nancarrow, Composer - Paul Usher, Arranger

(C) 2007 Wergo (P) 2007 Wergo

Study No. 34 for Player Piano (Conlon Nancarrow)

10
Study No. 34 (ca.1969 - Arranged for String Trio 1988) (First recording)
Arditti String Quartet
00:04:55

Arditti Quartet (Irvine Arditti, Violin - Ralf Ehlers, Viola - Rohan de Saram, Cello) - Conlon Nancarrow, Composer & Arranger - Renotated by Graeme Jennings

(C) 2007 Wergo (P) 2007 Wergo

Toccata for Violin and Player Piano (1935-1980) (Conlon Nancarrow)

11
Toccata for Violin and Player Piano
Arditti String Quartet
00:01:40

Arditti Quartet (Irvine Arditti, Violin) - A Marshall & Wendell Ampico Player Piano is used from the estate of Conlon Nancarrow - Conlon Nancarrow, Composer

(C) 2007 Wergo (P) 2007 Wergo

Trilogy for Player Piano (1987) (Conlon Nancarrow)

12
I. (First recording)
Conlon Nancarrow
00:02:05

A Marshall & Wendell Ampico Player Piano is used from the estate of Conlon Nancarrow - Conlon Nancarrow, Composer

(C) 2007 Wergo (P) 2007 Wergo

13
II. (First recording)
Conlon Nancarrow
00:04:05

A Marshall & Wendell Ampico Player Piano is used from the estate of Conlon Nancarrow - Conlon Nancarrow, Composer

(C) 2007 Wergo (P) 2007 Wergo

14
III. (First recording)
Conlon Nancarrow
00:01:53

A Marshall & Wendell Ampico Player Piano is used from the estate of Conlon Nancarrow - Conlon Nancarrow, Composer

(C) 2007 Wergo (P) 2007 Wergo

Albumbeschreibung

Any ensemble that takes on transcriptions of Nancarrow's player piano music deserves huge credit for bravery, and if it can pull it off, awestruck admiration. The Arditti Quartet programs both transcriptions of his works for player piano and works originally written for live performers, plus a duet for violin and player piano and a player piano solo. The Arditti, which has set before itself the most daunting musical challenges of the era since its founding in 1974, succeeds beautifully in maintaining the distinctive balancing act between the seeming chaos and systematic rigor Nancarrow demands. This high-wire act is most fear-inducing in Ivar Mikhashoff's arrangement of Study for Player piano No. 15, which sounds perilously close to the verge of spinning out of control, but the players miraculously bring the apparently unrelated lines to a tidy and satisfying cadence. Many of Nancarrow's works are canons, often using stupefyingly complex ratios (such as the square root of two to two) to determine the tempo of the various entries of the subject. His String Quartet No. 3 (1987), one of a handful of works he wrote for live performers rather than for player piano, uses the ratio of three to four to five to six. Each player's ability to maintain independence of tempo while remaining correctly related to the timing of the other three players is simply dazzling. Technical brilliance is not the Arditti's only triumph here; it plays with gorgeously full tone and subtly nuanced phrasing, giving the transcriptions a life they can never have when performed by a mechanical instrument. Nancarrow would have been proud, and probably amazed.

© TiVo

Details of original recording : Recorded November 23-25 at Kammermusiksaal, Beethoven-Haus Bonn (1-10) & October 21-22, 2005 at Musikakademie der Stadt Basel; 11-14 produced in cooperation with Paul Sacher Stiftung, Basel

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