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One might reasonably ask what is added to the music of Pérotin, Machaut, and Gesualdo by playing them on a string quartet. The Dudok Quartet Amsterdam itself even leaves the question open when it wonders what modern just intonation means when applied to the Notre Dame organum of Pérotin. Looked at another way, however, the minimalist and post-minimalist works at the core of the program here, by Steve Reich and Joey Roukens, also took the string quartet into new realms. Reich's Different Trains used the medium as a canvas for an entirely new way of hearing the relationship between speech and music in this Holocaust memorial work. The string quartet becomes not the learned conversation in the classic metaphor but a medium in which music can be stripped down to its essence. The Dudok Quartet Amsterdam is aiming not at a pastiche of contrasting works here but at a unified program in which the quartet medium is used to bring to life ways of music-making outside those of the Classic and Romantic eras, as a device for exploring music that seems elemental. It is splendidly recorded in a Netherlands radio studio, and the whole thing is thought-provoking enough to have landed the album on classical best-seller charts in the summer of 2023.
© James Manheim /TiVo
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What Remains (String Quartet No. 4) (Joey Roukens)
Joey Roukens, Composer - Dudok Quartet Amsterdam, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble
2023 Rubicon Classics Ltd. 2023 Dudok Quartet
Joey Roukens, Composer - Dudok Quartet Amsterdam, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble
2023 Rubicon Classics Ltd. 2023 Dudok Quartet
Perotin, Composer - Dudok Quartet Amsterdam, Arranger, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble
2023 Rubicon Classics Ltd. 2023 Dudok Quartet
Guillaume Machaut, Composer - Dudok Quartet Amsterdam, Arranger, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble
2023 Rubicon Classics Ltd. 2023 Dudok Quartet
Carlo Gesualdo, Composer - Dudok Quartet Amsterdam, Arranger, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble
2023 Rubicon Classics Ltd. 2023 Dudok Quartet
Different Trains (Steve Reich)
Steve Reich, Composer - Dudok Quartet Amsterdam, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble
2023 Rubicon Classics Ltd. 2023 Dudok Quartet
Steve Reich, Composer - Dudok Quartet Amsterdam, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble
2023 Rubicon Classics Ltd. 2023 Dudok Quartet
Steve Reich, Composer - Dudok Quartet Amsterdam, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble
2023 Rubicon Classics Ltd. 2023 Dudok Quartet
Olivier Messiaen, Composer - Dudok Quartet Amsterdam, Arranger, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble
2023 Rubicon Classics Ltd. 2023 Dudok Quartet
Album review
One might reasonably ask what is added to the music of Pérotin, Machaut, and Gesualdo by playing them on a string quartet. The Dudok Quartet Amsterdam itself even leaves the question open when it wonders what modern just intonation means when applied to the Notre Dame organum of Pérotin. Looked at another way, however, the minimalist and post-minimalist works at the core of the program here, by Steve Reich and Joey Roukens, also took the string quartet into new realms. Reich's Different Trains used the medium as a canvas for an entirely new way of hearing the relationship between speech and music in this Holocaust memorial work. The string quartet becomes not the learned conversation in the classic metaphor but a medium in which music can be stripped down to its essence. The Dudok Quartet Amsterdam is aiming not at a pastiche of contrasting works here but at a unified program in which the quartet medium is used to bring to life ways of music-making outside those of the Classic and Romantic eras, as a device for exploring music that seems elemental. It is splendidly recorded in a Netherlands radio studio, and the whole thing is thought-provoking enough to have landed the album on classical best-seller charts in the summer of 2023.
© James Manheim /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 9 track(s)
- Total length: 01:06:06
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Dudok Quartet Amsterdam
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Rubicon
- Genre: Classical Chamber Music Quartets
2023 Rubicon Classics Ltd. 2023 Dudok Quartet
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