Holmboe: String Quartets, Vol. 1
Nightingale String Quartet
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2021, Editor's Choice
All of this difficult music is extraordinarily well played by the Nightingale String Quartet. Their fresh and vibrant approach surpasses the Kontra Quartet and the recorded sound for the Nightingale’s...
Holmboe: String Quartets, Vol. 1
Nightingale String Quartet
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Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2021, Editor's Choice
All of this difficult music is extraordinarily well played by the Nightingale String Quartet. Their fresh and vibrant approach surpasses the Kontra Quartet and the recorded sound for the Nightingale’s...
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"After award-winning Langgaard recordings, the Nightingale String Quartet turns to one of the great unsung quartet cycles of the last century, that of Vagn Holmboe (1909 1909-1996). Volume 1 in this new cycle takes in the composer’s first published quartet, his momentum momentum-fueled Quartet No. 3 and his taut Quartet No. 15 with its pathos-imbued Funeral march. These are fresh new performances that support the idea that the deeper you dig into Holmboe’s music, the more you find."
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Awards and reviews
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Gramophone MagazineMarch 2021Editor's Choice
September/October 2021
All of this difficult music is extraordinarily well played by the Nightingale String Quartet. Their fresh and vibrant approach surpasses the Kontra Quartet and the recorded sound for the Nightingale’s is better too—full, vibrant, and immediate.
March 2021
It must be said that these new accounts by the Nightingale Quartet are at the very least competitive with their forebears and the finest to date sonically...Overall, this is a most promising start to an essential, richly recorded survey of what, as the late Robert Layton observed, remains a match for any other quartet cycle produced in the second half of the twentieth century.
