Spīķeru String Quartet - Pēteris Vasks: String Quartets 2 & 5 (2016) [FLAC] WEB
Composer: Pēteris Vasks (b.1946) 彼得里斯·瓦斯克斯 / 派特立斯·法斯卡 / 佩特里斯·瓦斯克斯
Ensemble: Spīķeru String Quartet
Antti Kortelainen………..violin
Eriks Kirsfelds………….violin
Ineta Abakuka…………….viola
Marta Sparnina……………cello
Label: Wergo
No.: WER 73292
Number of Discs: 1
Year: July 29, 2016
As a child, Peteris Vasks began to study violin. He recalls as his happiest the times he was able to play in a string quartet. Later Vasks performed as a double-bass player with various Latvian and Lithuanian symphony and chamber orchestras. He says it was clear soon enough that the sound of string instruments was for him the most perfect: "Apart from everything else, I was fascinated by cantilena - the feeling of an immense and never-ending chant.
It is in the sound of string instruments that my message sounds best - I am able there to sing out in the best way." Vasks's pantheistic love of nature is mirrored in his String Quartet No. 2 - "Summer Tunes": "I experience God and pray to him in the forest, on the seashore, everywhere, because the world as God created it is so beautiful." The first movement, "Coming into Bloom", is introduced in a subdued and flowing manner until the music settles. The second movement, "Birds" - with its free imitations of birdsongs - ranks among the most elaborate of Vasks's compositions. The third movement, "Elegy", ushers in autumnal resignation. The String Quartet No. 5 consists of two contrasting movements with poetic titles: "being present" and "so distant … yet so near". This opus explicitly reveals the dualism of images and moods so intrinsic to Vasks's music, to which the composer's written introduction bears witness: "The first movement immediately ushers in an atmosphere of emotional high tension. The dominant musical atmospheric elements are dramatic and turbulent. […] The second movement is the quartet's quiet, unhurried, songlike section - a forgiving, love-filled gaze upon a world tormented by pain and contradictions. Gradually, the singing becomes more personal, emotional, and dramatic. […] The quartet dies away in a mood of radiant sorrow. One cycle has ended. We continue to live."
作曲家本人这样说道:“有这么多的流血和破坏,但爱情的力量和理想主义有助于保持世界平衡,这就是我的这部四重奏中想讲东西。不隐晦,表达直接的情感和敏感性”。的确,从平易近人的旋律穿过混乱,然后再返回他在这个创造,他的第四弦乐四重奏,我们通过感受无数的场景,时而是激烈的,他知道如何建立一个高潮,放松,听者回到戏剧认识的提高。他颠覆性的方式部分受到肖斯塔科维奇的影响。克罗诺斯四重奏团的精妙演出带来如此完美的效果。在作品的结尾,回归到第一乐章的民间旋律后,琴弦飞到最高的把位,神奇的效果给听众极大的安慰。作品采用了拉脱维亚民歌,各个乐章表现了在经历一个世纪的沉静的反思,不同视角地冥想,尖锐的、不安的、焦虑的、痛苦的、柔和的。第四弦乐四重奏,提献给克罗诺斯四重奏团,2000年在巴黎De La Ville剧院首演。
Tracks:
String Quartet No. 5 23'31
1. Being Present
2. So Distant … Yet Near