"The Tansman Trio was founded by three young generation instrumentalists recognizable in Poland and was created thanks to the discovery of unknown works by Aleksander Tansman for string trio. The work of one of the best Polish composers of the 20th century, who was forced to go abroad to develop his career, became an impulse for these young artists to promote it more widely and to make him their patron. The album contains charming, light compositions, showing Tansman's talent in the field of small form. In the works in the style of neoclassicism and late romanticism, humor and virtuosity are intertwined with nostalgia, and the composer uses interesting harmonic and sonoristic solutions. The album features one of the leading young pianists, Tomaz Ritter. In these brilliant interpretations, Ritter and the Tansman Trio use the full potential of their individual and chamber artistry, confirming their talent already acknowledged by numerous awards from leading Polish and foreign competitions." (prestomusic.com)
Czech composer of modernist classical music, born December 8, 1890 in Polička, Austria-Hungary (now Czech Republic), died August 28, 1959, Liestal, Switzerland. He wrote almost 400 opuses, including six symphonies, 15 operas, 14 ballet scores and a large body of orchestral, chamber, vocal and instrumental works. In the 1930s he experimented with expressionism and constructivism, and became an admirer of current European technical developments. He also adopted jazz idioms. Of the post-war avant-garde styles, neo-classicism influenced him the most. He continued to use Bohemian and Moravian folk melodies throughout his oeuvre, usually nursery rhymes. He emigrated to the United States in 1941, fleeing the German invasion of France. Although as a composer he was successful in America, receiving many commissions, he became homesick for Czechoslovakia. He never returned to his native country, and he died in Switzerland. (discogs.com)
Música de feria (Fair Music) is a composition for string quartet by the Mexican composer and violinist Silvestre Revueltas, written in 1932. Though not so titled by the composer, it is sometimes referred to as his String Quartet No. 4. A performance lasts a little more than nine minutes. Música de feria was completed on 25 March 1932 and first performed on 7 November 1933 by the Cuarteto Clásico (violinists Ezequiel Sierra and David Saloma, violist David Elizarrarás, and cellist Teófilo Ariza) at the Teatro Hidalgo in Mexico City. Revueltas had previously composed three numbered quartets in rapid succession in 1930–31, but this work was only first designated his String Quartet No. 4 in 1984, by the Cuarteto Latinoamericano and Juan Arturo Brennan. It is regarded as one of Revueltas's most important works. Of his four quartets, Música de feria is without question the one that has most often been performed and recorded. (...) (Wikipedia)
"This 3-CD set of performances by the Alban Berg Quartet (ABQ) constitutes a series of reissued material in celebration of the quartet’s illustrious history. The ABQ has always excelled in the Germanic repertoire, but has been less successful elsewhere. This is evident from the selections on this set, which as a whole can be recommended to fans of the quartet. So, overall, pleasures are rather mixed. A positive note concerns the recorded sound. With all the different recording dates and the different venues, there is still an amazing consistency in the sound: full, rich sound in close perspective to the performers. This set, then, is recommended primarily to devotees of the Alban Berg Quartet." (musicweb-international.com)
Hindemith composed his String Trio No. 1 in 1924, when he was simultaneously a virtuoso performer on the viola and a founding member of the Amar String Quartet and gaining notoriety as an enfant terrible composer. (...) In the immediate aftermath of World War I, European composers, particularly in France and Germany, consciously sought new modes of expression that came to be known in France as neo-classicism, most notably in the works of Stravinsky and the Parisian group Les Six. (...) In Germany at this time, the neoclassical aesthetic found its equivalent in the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity), that was embodied by the composer Paul Hindemith, whose music during this period displayed the “return to” emphasis on contrapuntal textures, linear energy, and clarity and conciseness of form; in a word, anti-romantic. (laphil.com)
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (Florence, 3 april 1895 – Beverly Hills, 16 maart 1968) was een Italiaans componist. Met meer dan honderd composities voor gitaar op zijn naam geldt hij als een vooraanstaand twintigste-eeuws componist voor dit instrument. In 1939 vluchtte hij voor het fascisme en emigreerde naar de Verenigde Staten waar hij in de volgende vijftien jaar muziek schreef voor ongeveer 200 Hollywoodfilms. (...) Castelnuovo-Tedesco was een bijzonder vruchtbare componist. Hij schreef onder meer zes opera's, vijf oratoria, elf ouvertures bij toneelstukken van Shakespeare, vier balletten, concerten voor piano, gitaar, cello, harp en hobo, meer dan honderd composities voor piano en idem voor gitaar, meer dan honderd koorwerken, bijna vierhonderd werken voor zang en vele composities voor kamermuziek. (...) (Wikipedia)
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