Kurtag: Moments Musicaux & Dvorak: String Quintet Op. 97

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Antonin Dvorak:String Quintet No. 3 in E flat major, Op. 97 'American'
György Kurtág:Moments musicaux (6), Op. 44 for string quartetOfficium breve in memoriam Andreae Szervánsky, Op. 28

Detailed Presentation

Antonin Dvorak:String Quintet No. 3 in E flat major, Op. 97 'American'
Kim Kashkashian (Viola)
Parker Quartet (Quartet)
György Kurtág:Moments musicaux (6), Op. 44 for string quartetOfficium breve in memoriam Andreae Szervánsky, Op. 28
Parker Quartet (Quartet)

On its ECM New Series debut album, the Boston-based Parker Quartet, praised by the Washington Post for its “mastery and imaginative interpretive artistry,” performs works by György Kurtág as well as Antonín Dvořák – the latter together with the quartet’s former mentor, violist Kim Kashkashian. In this powerful program of contrasts, Dvořák’s String Quintet No. 3, composed in America in 1893, is framed by two concentrated, meticulously shaped works by Kurtág – the Six Moments musicaux (2005) and the Officium breve in memoriam Andreae Szervánszky (1988 / 89). The special feeling for Kurtág’s singular musical language is not least the result of an intensive collaboration with the Hungarian composer.

The album was recorded in the studio of Radio DRS in Zurich.