Of All Joys Attacca Quartet

• Arvo Pärt (b. 1935):
• 1 Pärt: Summa 05:44
• Luca Marenzio (1553 - 1599):
• 2 Marenzio: Solo e pensoso 05:01
• John Dowland (1563 - 1626):
• 3 Dowland: Flow My Tears (Lachrimae) 03:55
• Orlando Gibbons (1583 - 1625):
• 4 Gibbons: Fantasia a 6 in D Minor 03:45
• Philip Glass (b. 1937): String Quartet No. 3 "Mishima":
• 5 Glass: String Quartet No. 3 "Mishima": I. 1957 - Award Montage 04:11
• 6 Glass: String Quartet No. 3 "Mishima": II. November 25 - Ishigaya 01:21
• 7 Glass: String Quartet No. 3 "Mishima": III. 1934 - Grandmother and Kimitake 04:12
• 8 Glass: String Quartet No. 3 "Mishima": IV. 1962 - Body Building 01:41
• 9 Glass: String Quartet No. 3 "Mishima": V. Blood Oath 03:16
• 10 Glass: String Quartet No. 3 "Mishima": VI. Mishima / Closing 02:57
• Gregorio Allegri (1582 - 1652):
• 11 Allegri: Miserere 08:00
• John Bennet (1575 - 1614):
• 12 Bennet: Weep, O Mine Eyes 02:53
• Jacobus Clemens non Papa (1510 - 1555):
• 13 Papa: Ego flos campi a 7 04:38
• Arvo Pärt:
• 14 Pärt: Fratres 11:32
• Total Runtime 01:03:06

Info for Of All Joys

Auf ihrem zweiten Album bei Sony Classical – „Of all Joys“ - beweist das Attacca Quartet einmal mehr sein Können und seine stilistische Bandbreite, denn es verbindet gekonnt Werke der Minimal Music und der Renaissance miteinander. Im Zentrum steht Philip Glass' Drittes Streichquartett „Mishima“. Als reizvollen Kontrast wählte das Ensemble stimmungsvolle Werke aus dem 16. Jahrhundert, u.a. "Flow my tears" von John Dowland, das berühmte "Miserere" von Gregorio Allegri oder "Weep, O Mine Eyes" von John Bennett, alle in neuen, eigenen Arrangements. Ein Höhepunkt auf dem Album ist sicher Arvo Pärts berührendes "Summa". Dem Attacca Quartett gelingt es auf "Of all Joys", die Einzigartigkeit und Schönheit dieser so unterschiedlichen Werke der Minimal- und Renaissance-Musik berührend zum Ausdruck zu bringen.

Das 2003 gegründete Attacca Quartet steht für eine neue Form des Streichquartetts im 21. Jahrhundert. Das New Yorker Ensemble mit Amy Schroeder (Geige), Domenic Salerni (Geige), Nathan Schram (Bratsche) und Andrew Yee (Cello) hat bereits sechs gefeierte Alben eingespielt, darunter Caroline Shaw: Orange. Für letzteres erhielten sie den GRAMMY® Award 2020 in der Kategorie »Best Chamber Music / Small Ensemble Performance«. Von der Musikkritik der New York Times, von Noisey und anderer Zeitungen wurde das Quartett gefeiert, und insbesondere The Nation hob lobend hervor, wie das Attacca Quartet „ästhetisch in der Gegenwart lebt, ohne die Qualitäten der musikalischen Vergangenheit zu verleugnen“. Außerdem traten sie bei den Carnegie Hall Neighborhood Concerts, der Nightcap-Reihe des New York Philharmonic, im Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, beim White Lights Festival im Lincoln Center und im Miller Theatre mit Caroline Shaw auf. Das Ensemble war u. a. als Julliard’s Graduate Resident String Quartet und als Residenz-Quartett im Metropolitan Museum of Art engagiert und bereits auf vier Kontinenten zu Gast. Darüber hinaus hat das Attacca Quartet mit so renommierten Künstlern wie Björk und James Blake zusammengearbeitet und tritt sogar in dem beliebten Videospiel Red Dead Redemption 2 auf. Sie waren auch auf dem Soundtrack für Amazons Mozart in the Jungle (2016) zu hören. Mit ihrem ersten Album bei Sony Classical, REAL LIFE (2021) verbanden sie modernen Sound mit klassischer Anmutung und überwinden alle Genre- und und Epochengrenzen auf einmal.

Attacca Quartet

Attacca Quartet
First prize winners in the 7th Osaka International Chamber Music Competition in 2011, top prize winners and Listeners’ Choice award recipients in the 2011 Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition, and winners of the Alice Coleman Grand Prize in the 60th annual Coleman Chamber Ensemble Competition in 2006, the internationally acclaimed Attacca Quartet has become one of America’s premier young performing ensembles. Praised by The Strad for possessing “maturity beyond its members’ years,” they were formed at the Juilliard School in 2003 and made their professional debut in 2007 as part of the Artists International Winners Series in Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall. From 2011-2013 they served as the Juilliard Graduate Resident String Quartet, and for the 2014-2015 season they were selected as the Quartet in Residence by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

The Attacca Quartet recently completed a recording project of Haydn’s masterwork “The Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross,” arranged by Andrew Yee and the Attacca Quartet. In his review for Gramophone, Donald Rosenberg wrote, “The Attacca Quartet explore the work’s range of expressive moods with utmost sensitivity to nuance and interplay .... They triumph in every respect, and are captured in such vivid sound that no telling Haydn detail is allowed to go unheard.” Thewholenote.com wrote, “It’s easily the most satisfying string version of the work that I’ve heard.”

In 2013, the quartet released the complete works for string quartet by John Adams on Azica Records. It was praised by Steve Smith of The New York Times as a “vivacious, compelling set,” describing the Attacca Quartet’s playing as “exuberant, funky, and … exactingly nuanced.” The Boston Globe also praised the release, stating, “Few [recent recordings] are as consequential as ‘Fellow Traveler,’ … superb performances.” The album was the recipient of the 2013 National Federation of Music Clubs Centennial Chamber Music Award. The quartet has been honored with both the Arthur Foote Award from the Harvard Musical Association and the Lotos Prize in the Arts from the Stecher and Horowitz Foundation.

The 2016-2017 season began with a bang as the Attacca Quartet opened for rock superstar Jeff Lynne’s ELO in two sold-out Radio City Music Hall performances. In addition, the quartet will be launching their new “Recently Added” series (first announced in a New York Times feature about the completion of their six-year traversal of all of Haydn’s 68 string quartets). The new project is dedicated to living composers who they feel have added significantly to the string quartet canon. The first season is taking place at Brooklyn's National Sawdust and features the music of Caroline Shaw, Michael Ippolito and John Adams. At the same time, the Attacca will present an ongoing series at Trinity Lutheran Church in Manhattan entitled “Based on Beethoven,” featuring performances of the complete Beethoven string quartets, paired with works inspired by Beethoven from the “Recently Added” series. The group will serve as the inaugural Ensemble-in-Residence at the School of Music at Texas State University during the 2016-2017 season and will appear in concerts and master classes throughout the United States and South America.

The Attacca Quartet has engaged in extensive educational and community outreach projects, serving as guest artists and teaching fellows at the Lincoln Center Institute, the Boston University Tanglewood Institute, Vivace String Camp in New York, the Woodlands ChamberFest in Texas, Virginia Arts Festival, Bravo! Vail Valley and Animato Summer Music Camp at Florida International University in Miami. Since 2006, they have performed in yearly benefit concerts supporting the Parkinson’s Disease Foundation’s efforts. The members of the Attacca Quartet currently reside in New York City. They are represented by Baker Artists, LLC.

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