SKU: HL.48025044

UPC: 196288021735.

For its farewell season after 35 years, the Nomos Quartet from Hanover created a concert series in 2019 around the works by Ludwig van Beethoven, who had set standards in the field of string quartets. For this event, the ensemble commissioned a new work from Irister Schiphorst, in which the composer at first studied Beethoven's first contribution to the genre. However, her distance from the reference piece became greater than initially planned, and the question that moved centre-stage was: 'How does Beethoven's music resonate in me at all? Is it musical gestures, themes or moods?' The tonal result of this composing self-exploration is - rich in contrast, often noise-like and pushing the dynamic range to its limits - the personal reformulation of Beethovian 'pathos formulas',i. e. signs of passionate experience embodied in the universal cultural heritage.

SKU: BT.SCHBB1400378

String Quartet (parts). Klebe, G.

SKU: HL.48025389

UPC: 196288195412.

'I wrote Naive Waltz in the early 90s for a dance piece called “Zeche 2” in Bochum, Germany. It was one of a few waltzes in that production and the only one to survive the passing of time,' says Elena Kats-Chernin. Shortly afterwards, the composer herself arranged the original piano solo version for string quartet; this is the form in which the musically restrained piece is included onthe Acacia Quartet's complete recording of her music for this instrumentation.

SKU: BT.SCHBB6501289

String Quartet (Study Score). Klebe, G.