Atterberg & Rangstrom: String Quartets
Stenhammar Quartet
Unfailingly perceptive and idiomatic performances from the Stenhammar Quartet, bringing Rangstrom's scintillating textural drive and Atterberg's exultant lyricism fully to life.
Atterberg & Rangstrom: String Quartets
Stenhammar Quartet
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Unfailingly perceptive and idiomatic performances from the Stenhammar Quartet, bringing Rangstrom's scintillating textural drive and Atterberg's exultant lyricism fully to life.
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Whiles Atterberg’s first quartet is regarded as a personal, refined work, his second quartet “originated from a peculiar impulse to play a prank. This is reflected in my disrespectful treatment of the keys.” Ture Rangstroem’s inspiration for the string quartet came from friend and mentor Carl Nielsen, who commented “the vibrancy and temperament with which your work is imbued are genuinely delightful.” The result is a truly inspired, resolute work from Rangstroem’s youth.
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Awards and reviews
Christmas 2014
Unfailingly perceptive and idiomatic performances from the Stenhammar Quartet, bringing Rangstrom's scintillating textural drive and Atterberg's exultant lyricism fully to life.
December 2014
The new account by the Stenhammar Quartet is by a distance the front-runner: their tone, aided by CPO's warm and vibrant recording, is richer than their rivals and they catch its late-Romantic atmosphere superbly well.
