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Schumann Quartett Landscapes Haydn | Takemitsu | Bartók | Pärt Joseph Haydn String Quartet in B-Flat Major, Op Schumann Quartett Landscapes Haydn | Takemitsu | Bartók | Pärt JOSEph HAYDN string quartet in B-flat major, op. 76/4, Hob. III:78 (No. 4) “Sunrise” 01 I. Allegro con spirito 7:52 02 II. Adagio 5:20 03 III. Menuetto 3:42 04 IV. Finale 4:14 - TO RU TAKEMITSU 05 Landscape I for string quartet 07:47 BÉLA BARTÓK string quartet No. 2, Sz. 67 06 I. Moderato 10:18 07 II. Allegro molto capriccioso 7:34 08 III. Lento 8:39 ARVO PÄRT 09 Fratres Joseph Haydn is a conscientious revolutionary. His “Sunrise” Joseph Haydn ist ein behutsamer »Revoluzzer«. Das »Son- Quartet op. 76 No. 4 is littered with idiosyncrasies. Just as nenaufgangsquartett« op. 76 Nr. 4 ist mit Eigenarten übersät. you are thinking you can get the hang of this music, it slips Gerade als man denkt, diese Musik greifen zu können, wird away from you again. sie sich erneut entziehen. The Schumann Quartet is hooked on Joseph Haydn! There’s a rea- Nach Joseph Haydn ist das Schumann Quartett süchtig! Natürlich son for this addiction, of course; without Haydn, the “string quar- liegt diese Sucht nahe, die Gattung »Streichquartett« ohne Haydn tet” genre would be like a string instrument without a bow. True, wäre wie ein Streichinstrument ohne Bogen. Zwar wird der Kompo- the composer is still – somewhat disrespectfully – called “Papa nist noch immer – leicht despektierlich – »Papa Haydn« genannt, sei Haydn”, whether to stress his place in the evolutionary chain link- es, weil er als historisches Bindeglied zwischen Johann Sebastian ing Johann Sebastian Bach and Wolfgang Amadé Mozart or be- Bach und Wolfgang Amadé Mozart herhalten muss, oder weil seine cause his works allegedly lack the inquisitiveness of a Mozart or Werke angeblich nicht die Experimentierfreudigkeit eines Mozart the philosophical profundities of a Ludwig van Beethoven. Joseph oder die philosophischen Abgründe eines Ludwig van Beethoven Haydn has yet to recover from such false assessments. And it is besitzen. Noch immer muss sich Joseph Haydn von solchen »Rezep- abundantly clear from the “Sunrise” Quartet op. 76 No. 4 just how tionsfl ausen« erholen. Dabei macht gerade das »Sonnenaufgangs- false they are. It may not be obvious to the listener, because it is not quartett« op. 76 Nr. 4 überdeutlich, dass dem nicht so ist. Es mag sich at all easy listening. All our expectations of the four-movement dem Zuhörer entziehen, es ist alles andere als gefällig. Zwar werden form are fulfi lled, but the work is littered with idiosyncrasies. alle Erwartungen an die viersätzige Form erfüllt, aber das Werk ist Some of them are right at the beginning of the composition, when übersät mit Eigenarten. Diese fi nden sich gleich zu Beginn der Kom- the fi rst violin responds to the sustained notes of the remaining position, wenn nämlich die erste Violine zu den gehaltenen Tönen instruments by describing a discursively rising and then falling der übrigen Instrumente eine schweifend aufsteigende und zuletzt pattern. Is it sombre? Is it encouraging? Is it playful? Perhaps it all wieder absinkende Bewegung beschreibt. Ist das düster? Ist das er- depends on the listener’s reaction to it. The fi nal movement, put- munternd? Ist das verspielt? Vielleicht kommt das auf den Zuhörer ting everything in a new light with its minor-key interpolations, an. Gerade der letzte Satz, der mit seinen Moll-Einschüben alles in shows how careful one must be not to stuff Haydn into a pigeon- ein neues Licht rückt, zeigt, wie sehr man sich davor hüten muss, hole. Haydn in eine Schublade zu zwängen. “Landscape I” by To- ru Takemitsu is powerful music. It am- »Landscape I« von To-ru Takemitsu ist übergriffi ge Musik. Sie bushes its listeners, begins to hypnotize them, telling the befällt den Hörer, beginnt ihn zu hypnotisieren und erzählt tale of the contrast between sound and emotion. It is a med- vom Gegensatz zwischen Klang und Emotion. Es ist eine itation, a provocation. Meditation, ein Wagnis. It is like an endless fi gure of eight and it challenges its audience! Es ist wie eine unendliche Acht und es fordert den Zuhörer her- T ru Takemitsu, the most important composer to appear from Ja- aus! T ru Takemitsu, bedeutendster Komponist aus Japan, hat pan, created music in his 1960 piece “Landscape I” that sends the 1960 mit »Landscape I« ein Stück geschaff en, das den Zuhörer in listener into a meditative state. A single theme is repeated fourteen eine Meditation versetzt. Ein Thema wird vierzehn Mal wieder- times. The fi rst notes emerge as if from nothingness, only to be holt. Wie aus dem Nichts tauchen die ersten Töne auf, die beherzt heartily interrupted. Open fi fths evoke emptiness, gradually coa- unterbrochen werden. Durch off ene Quinten herrscht Leere, die lescing into a crystalline sonic atmosphere. The background of nach und nach eine kristalline Klangatmosphäre erschaff t. Der stillness – of silence – is all-pervading. “In Japanese music it is the Hintergrund der Stille, ja des Schweigens, ist allgegenwärtig. »In space, not the note, that is the most important,” Takemitsu has ob- der japanischen Musik ist das Wichtigste der Raum, nicht der served. One need not be consciously aware of the three sections of Ton«, hat Takemitsu dazu gesagt. Man muss die drei Abschnitte the work to be captivated by it; the constant repetition of the theme des Stückes nicht bewusst wahrnehmen, um gefangen zu werden. blurs the boundaries, masking the sense of one’s place in the struc- Die ständige Wiederholung des Themas lässt die Grenzen ver- ture of the piece. In Takemitsu’s music, particularly in this piece, schwimmen, wo man sich in der Struktur des Stückes befi ndet. In infl uences from Impressionism, Serialism and the avant-garde are Takemitsus Musik, und gerade in diesem Stück, fi nden sich Ein- enriched by what its creator has learned from traditional and con- fl üsse des Impressionismus, des Serialismus und der Avantgarde, temporary Japanese music. “Landscape I” comes across like a loop sowie der traditionellen und der zeitgenössischen japanischen made up of fi elds of sound that then come into contention with the Musik. »Landscape I« wirkt wie ein Loop aus Klangfl ächen, die feeling of the piece. It is not easy to make sense of, but always aber mit der Atmosphäre des Stückes in Kontrast treten. Genau worth the eff ort! das auszuhalten ist nicht leicht, aber allemal gewinnbringend! String Quartet No. 2 op. 17 by Béla Bartók succumbs to hor- Das Streichquartett Nr. 2 op. 17 von Béla Bartók liefert sich ror. After melancholy has given way to a devilish dance, total dem Schrecken aus. Nachdem die Melancholie einem dia- gloom reigns. The two fi nal pizzicati hang in the air. bolischen Tanz weicht, herrscht absolute Düsternis. Die zwei letzten Pizzicati hallen noch lange nach. The third and last movement of Béla Bartók’s String Quartet No. 2 op. 17, which terminates with two pizzicati, is a point of conclusion Der dritte und letzte Satz von Béla Bartóks Streichquartett Nr. 2 op. that could not possibly be drearier. This second, remarkably Ex- 17, mit zwei Pizzicati endend, ist ein Schlusspunkt, der düsterer pressionist quartet was written during the First World War. Al- nicht sein könnte. Das zweite, auff allend expressionistische Quar- though in only three movements, it has a playing time of half an tett entstand in den Jahren des Ersten Weltkriegs. Obwohl nur drei- hour, recalling the expressiveness of turn-of-the-century Vienna. sätzig, kommt es auf eine Spieldauer von einer halben Stunde, was Bartók was obliged to interrupt his fi eldwork during World War I noch auf die Expressivität der Wiener Jahrhundertwende zurück- and so had time to transcribe the research material on Hungarian verweist. Bartók musste seine Reisen aufgrund des Ersten Weltkrie- folk music that he had collected with the aid of a walking-stick, ges unterbrechen und hatte so Zeit, seine Recherchematerialien music paper and a phonograph. The fi rst movement, “Moderato”, zur ungarischen Volksmusik, die er mit Spazierstock, Notenpapier is based on a wide-ranging theme in just this folkloric tradition. Its und Phonograph gesammelt hatte, zu transkribieren. Der erste chromatics and its eloquent suspensions shape the melancholy of Satz, »Moderato«, beruht auf einem weit ausschwingenden Thema the opening. Its style too is post-Romantically expressive. The sec- in diesem folkloristischen Sinn. Es prägt mit Chromatik und ex- ond movement off ers a virtuosic counterbalance to the outer pressiven Vorhalten den melancholischen Charakter des Beginns. movements, albeit not in an aggressive sense. It is like a diabolical Auch im Stil wirkt es nachromantisch-ausdrucksvoll. Der zweite dance often conducted in galant triple time, before the last move- Satz gibt den Ecksätzen ein virtuoses Gegengewicht, allerdings ment returns to the already melancholic atmosphere of the fi rst nicht im aggressiven Sinn. Er ist wie ein diabolischer Tanz, der teil- and plunges it into pitch blackness. weise im galanten Dreierrhythmus voranschreitet, bevor der letzte Satz die bereits melancholische Atmosphäre des ersten Satzes wie- deraufnimmt und ins Pechschwarze rückt. From left to right: Erik Schumann, Ken Schumann, Arvo Pärt, Liisa Randalu, Mark Schumann “Fratres” is music that falls like a drop of ink into a glass of »Fratres« ist Musik, die wie ein Tintentropfen in ein Glas Was- water, spreading and unfurling without losing its identity. It is ser fällt, sich ausbreitet und ausdehnt, ohne an Kontur zu an idea that is not assigned to any instrument. Various scor- verlieren. Es ist eine Idee, die keinem Instrument zugeordnet ings have interpreted Arvo Pärt’s idea since 1977. ist. Verschiedene Besetzungen interpretieren den Gedanken von Arvo Pärt seit 1977. “Fratres” is music that has long been in existence and has been re- corded by various instruments and groupings.
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