\nA string quartet that bubbles with so much youthful enthusiasm as the Goldmund Quartet and yet has been playing concerts to international audiences and winning prizes for the past ten years, all with the same line-up, is something that is hard to find. The Goldmunds\u2019 Travel Diaries are the musical journal of their past shared decade and a sound document that reflects on the past while looking very much to the future.
\nThe four Munich musicians Florian Sch\u00f6tz (first violin), Pinchas Adt (second violin), Christoph Vandory (viola) & Raphael Paratore (cello) bring together on their new album five contemporary works by composers with whom they have previously worked. Faz\u0131l Say kicks off with his Divorce Quartet, in which the four musicians give their interpretation of an intense, energy-charged work by one of the best known composers of our time. \u201cThe psychological essence of the work can, up to a point, be figuratively transferred to the music-making and interaction between the members of a string quartet. We strive among ourselves to achieve the expression of profound emotions, we go through ups and downs.\u201d
\nDobrinka Tabakova, whose work The Smile of the Flamboyant Wings was written expressly for the Goldmund Quartet as an ECHO commission for their Rising Stars tour, is the youngest composer on the album. The quartet was intimately involved with the work\u2019s composition: \u201cWe played the early sketches to her in Skype sessions and talked to her about them. We improvised together. We experimented with various soundscapes and timbres. We researched the different constellations of melody and accompaniment. We were out in Munich drinking beer \u2026 and eventually we learned: \u2018I\u2019ve just sent you the finished score!\u2019\u201d
\nWolfgang Rihm\u2019s String Quartet no. 4 will always remind the Goldmund Quartet how they got to know their mentor G\u00fcnter Pichler, first violin of the legendary Alban Berg Quartet. They wanted to play him this ambitious work, completely underestimated it and had to go to a great deal of trouble to get it right. It is now one of their \u201call-time favourites\u201d and forms an integral part of their concert repertoire.
\nThe temperature was in the forties Celsius (round 100\u00b0 F.) when the quartet was working on Commedia dell\u2019arte III in Aix-en-Provence with its composer Ana Sokolovic. \u201cThe rehearsals together made the string quartet into a piece of impromptu theatre that we were delighted to perform a few days later. There is always something liberating about playing the Commedia dell\u2019arte III in concert and it\u2019s an amusing experience every time, both for us and for the audience.\u201d
\nThe last composer whom the Goldmund Quartet meets in their Travel Diaries is also the guitarist of the US rock band The National, Bryce Dessner. His piece Aheym is a powerful tribute to home and the homeland. (Aheym is Yiddish for \u201chomeward\u201d.)
\nThe Travel Diaries are a snapshot of the Goldmund Quartet, a moment in time. After Haydn and Shostakovich they have anchored themselves in the here and now as an ensemble that has already achieved a lot and will attract a lot more attention in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A string quartet that bubbles with so much youthful enthusiasm as the Goldmund Quartet and yet has been playing concerts to international audiences and winning prizes for the past ten years, all with the same line-up, is something that is hard to find. The Goldmunds\u2019 Travel Diaries are the musical journal of their past shared […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1284011,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"dmbid":"663932","upc":"885470015279","linkfire":"","ean":"","genre":"Streichquartett","genre2":"Klassik - Neue \/ Zeitgen\u00f6ssische Musik","genre3":"","copyright":"","producer":"","playtime":"3914","date":"2020-04-24","dateend":"2099-12-31","trackamount":"11","discamount":"1","artistsname":"","composer":"Faz\u0131l Say|Bryce Dessner|Wolfgang Rihm","teammember":["1009;Goldmund Quartet;1411318|1010;Faz\u0131l Say;1841415|1010;Bryce Dessner;1841460|1010;Wolfgang Rihm;1841439"],"teammemberlist":["1411318|1841415|1841460|1841439"],"english":"
\nA string quartet that bubbles with so much youthful enthusiasm as the Goldmund Quartet and yet has been playing concerts to international audiences and winning prizes for the past ten years, all with the same line-up, is something that is hard to find. The Goldmunds\u2019 Travel Diaries are the musical journal of their past shared decade and a sound document that reflects on the past while looking very much to the future.
\nThe four Munich musicians Florian Sch\u00f6tz (first violin), Pinchas Adt (second violin), Christoph Vandory (viola) & Raphael Paratore (cello) bring together on their new album five contemporary works by composers with whom they have previously worked. Faz\u0131l Say kicks off with his Divorce Quartet, in which the four musicians give their interpretation of an intense, energy-charged work by one of the best known composers of our time. \u201cThe psychological essence of the work can, up to a point, be figuratively transferred to the music-making and interaction between the members of a string quartet. We strive among ourselves to achieve the expression of profound emotions, we go through ups and downs.\u201d
\nDobrinka Tabakova, whose work The Smile of the Flamboyant Wings was written expressly for the Goldmund Quartet as an ECHO commission for their Rising Stars tour, is the youngest composer on the album. The quartet was intimately involved with the work\u2019s composition: \u201cWe played the early sketches to her in Skype sessions and talked to her about them. We improvised together. We experimented with various soundscapes and timbres. We researched the different constellations of melody and accompaniment. We were out in Munich drinking beer \u2026 and eventually we learned: \u2018I\u2019ve just sent you the finished score!\u2019\u201d
\nWolfgang Rihm\u2019s String Quartet no. 4 will always remind the Goldmund Quartet how they got to know their mentor G\u00fcnter Pichler, first violin of the legendary Alban Berg Quartet. They wanted to play him this ambitious work, completely underestimated it and had to go to a great deal of trouble to get it right. It is now one of their \u201call-time favourites\u201d and forms an integral part of their concert repertoire.
\nThe temperature was in the forties Celsius (round 100\u00b0 F.) when the quartet was working on Commedia dell\u2019arte III in Aix-en-Provence with its composer Ana Sokolovic. \u201cThe rehearsals together made the string quartet into a piece of impromptu theatre that we were delighted to perform a few days later. There is always something liberating about playing the Commedia dell\u2019arte III in concert and it\u2019s an amusing experience every time, both for us and for the audience.\u201d
\nThe last composer whom the Goldmund Quartet meets in their Travel Diaries is also the guitarist of the US rock band The National, Bryce Dessner. His piece Aheym is a powerful tribute to home and the homeland. (Aheym is Yiddish for \u201chomeward\u201d.)
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