Mivos Quartet - Steve Reich: The String Quartets (2023)
Mivos Quartet - Steve Reich: The String Quartets (2023)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 328 Mb | Total time: 57:24 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # 486 3385 | Recorded: 2022
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 328 Mb | Total time: 57:24 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # 486 3385 | Recorded: 2022
All three of the Steve Reich string quartets here were composed for the Kronos Quartet, which has been strongly identified with them. However, several things may be said in favor of this 2023 release by the Mivos Quartet. The first and most important is that this is the first recording of all three Reich quartets together, and it is quite interesting to hear them this way. Reich said for many years that he could not imagine himself writing a string quartet, and the repetition-based structure of his music seemed incompatible with the medium. His solution, precipitated by his juxtaposition of his own childhood train journeys with recollections of Holocaust survivors on trains to concentration camps, was applied first in Different Trains (1988); the string quartet here acts as a discrete unit, introducing and commenting on taped voices. Reich's general idea is applied in different ways in the other two quartets: WTC 9/11 again pairs the quartet with prerecorded voices on the day of the disaster and in later interviews, while the Triple Quartet is entirely instrumental and has the live string quartet answer its own taped material. A second interesting feature here is that the Mivos Quartet's readings differ from those of the Kronos Quartet; Reich himself suggested that the instrumentalists might match the contours of the spoken words in Different Trains and WTC 9/11 as they saw fit. (Moreover, Reich approved of the idea of recording all the quartets together.) Finally, the Mivos Quartet's performance of Different Trains, in particular, is unusually intense, doing justice to this work that has been numbered among the few successful artistic responses to the Holocaust. This album explores the way one of the modern era's greatest innovators worked within the most conventional of classical genres, and it is enthusiastically recommended. This album appeared on classical best-seller lists in early 2023.–James Manheim
Performer:
Mivos Quartet:
Olivia De Prato, violin
Maya Bennardo, violin
Victor Lowrie Tafoya, viola
Tyler J. Borden, cello
Tracklist:
Steve Reich
WTC 9/11
01. I. 9/11/01
02. II. 2010
03. III. WTC
Triple Quartet
04. I.
05. II.
06. III.
Different Trains
07. I. America - Before the War
08. II. Europe - During the War
09. III. After the War
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Mivos Quartet - Steve Reich: The String Quartets (2023)
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