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Leon Kirchner: The Complete String Quartets
Leon Kirchner, Boston Composers String Quartet
Leon Kirchner: The Complete String Quartets
Genre: Classical
 
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Kirchner won a well-deserved Pulitzer Prize for his Third String Quartet, which combines live players with electronic music in an intellectually and emotionally convincing manner. The Second Quartet is actually a more di...  more »

     
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All Artists: Leon Kirchner, Boston Composers String Quartet
Title: Leon Kirchner: The Complete String Quartets
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Label: Albany Records
Release Date: 8/10/1995
Genre: Classical
Styles: Chamber Music, Instruments, Electronic
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 034061013723

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Kirchner won a well-deserved Pulitzer Prize for his Third String Quartet, which combines live players with electronic music in an intellectually and emotionally convincing manner. The Second Quartet is actually a more difficult piece, atonal and challenging but still swept along by its vital, rhythmic drive, which is usually a potent force in Kirchner's music. The First Quartet shows the young composer, in 1949, finding his own voice under the influences of Bartók (whom he quotes) and Schoenberg. This is a fascinating, well-played disc, and it leaves me hungry for more of Kirchner's music as well as some of his phenomenal piano playing. --Leslie Gerber

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