Incompleta (RecArt 0008) presents works for string quartet, which for some reason were never completed. Each of these works is completely different, reveals a very different life situations composers, different contexts and causes of unfinished compositions.
Incompleteness brings
to mind usually bad connotations. A breach of finis coronat opus principleoften
causes lack of symmetry of work, interferes with the expectancy and logic of a
design, andfinally builds a sense of its limitations. We can multiply examples
of buildings that have never livedto see their final architectural shape, or
the ones, which combine different styles compiled over thecenturies; and that
does not always produce indisputably successful result. Studying of
biographiesof prominent composers stirs speculations: what else and how would
Mozart, Pergolesi, Schubertwrite if the Great Director did not remove them from
the stage of life so early? How would theirstyle develop, what measures would
they apply and how many works - probably remarkable ones -would have been
created if they could reach their venerable years? The Incompleta album
presentsthe works for a stringquartet, which were, for some reason, never
finished. Each of these works iscompletely different and reveals quite varied
life situations of composers, different contexts and causes of the unfinished
pieces.
MUSICARIUS
Mikołaj Zgółka violin
Radosław Kamieniarz violin
Piotr Chrupek viola
Bartosz Kokosza cello
CD available on: www.prestomusic.com
Johann Sebastian Bach: Die Kunst der Fuge
1. Contrapunctus 1
Joseph Haydn: Quartat op. 103 nr. 83
2. Andante grazioso
3. Menuetto ma non troppo presto
Johann Sebastian Bach: Die Kunst der Fuge
4. Contrapunctus 4
Luigi Boccherini: Quartet op. 64 nr. 2
5. Allegro con brio
Johann Sebastian Bach: Die Kunst der Fuge
6. Contrapunctus 9
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Quartet op. 81
7. Tema con Variazioni, Andante
8. Scherzo
Johann Sebastian Bach: Die Kunst der Fuge
9. Contrapunctus 19
10. Choral Wenn wir in hoechsten Noethen/Vor deinen Thron trete ich hiermit
Premiere | 11 December 2014 |