In his second string quartet the composer Harald Weiss counters our fast-moving time with a work on silence and concentration. Rubatos fermatas and little caesuras are added to simple note values - like lava the music slowly flows into the room. Both the audience and the musicians have time to listen to the reverberation of the sounds. Engulfed in an aura of silence and reverberation tone colour and dynamics get new possibilities of development melodies condense into harmonies the work changes between audible and inaudible worlds. The sound of the strings is complemented by two additional CDs which help to intensify the three-dimensional sound effects.

Publisher

Schott Music

Composer

Harald Weiss

Instrument

Cello|Viola

Format

String Quartet

Pages

114

ISBN

9790001141079

Stock code

ED9963

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