Not all cats are grey Quatuor Hanson

• György Ligeti (1923 - 2006): String Quartet No. 1 "Métamorphoses nocturnes":
• 1 Ligeti: String Quartet No. 1 "Métamorphoses nocturnes": I. Allegro grazioso 01:33
• 2 Ligeti: String Quartet No. 1 "Métamorphoses nocturnes": II. Vivace, cappricioso 02:00
• 3 Ligeti: String Quartet No. 1 "Métamorphoses nocturnes": III. Adagio, mesto 02:28
• 4 Ligeti: String Quartet No. 1 "Métamorphoses nocturnes": IV. Presto - Prestissimo 02:56
• 5 Ligeti: String Quartet No. 1 "Métamorphoses nocturnes": V. Andante tranquillo 03:10
• 6 Ligeti: String Quartet No. 1 "Métamorphoses nocturnes": VI. Tempo di valse - Subito prestissimo - Subito. Molto sostenuto 02:35
• 7 Ligeti: String Quartet No. 1 "Métamorphoses nocturnes": VII. Allegretto, un poco giovale - Poco più mosso - Molto espressivo, poco meno mosso - Allegro energico 02:02
• 8 Ligeti: String Quartet No. 1 "Métamorphoses nocturnes": VIII. Subito allegro con moto. string. Prestissimo 02:03
• 9 Ligeti: String Quartet No. 1 "Métamorphoses nocturnes": IX. Allegro comodo, giovale - Prestissimo - Molto sostenuto, rubato - Lento 03:25
• Béla Bartók (1881 - 1945): String Quartet No. 2, Op. 17, Sz 67:
• 10 Bartók: String Quartet No. 2, Op. 17, Sz 67: I. Moderato 10:59
• 11 Bartók: String Quartet No. 2, Sz. 67: II. Allegro molto capriccioso 08:14
• 12 Bartók: String Quartet No. 2, Sz. 67: III. Lento 09:01
• Henri Dutilleux (1916 - 2013): Ainsi la nuit:
• 13 Dutilleux: Ainsi la nuit: I. Nocturne 1 (Libre et souple) 03:42
• 14 Dutilleux: Ainsi la nuit: II. Miroir d'espace (Parenthèse 1) 02:35
• 15 Dutilleux: Ainsi la nuit: III. Litanies 1 (Parenthèse 2) 03:03
• 16 Dutilleux: Ainsi la nuit: IV. Litanies 2 (Parenthèse 3) 04:20
• 17 Dutilleux: Ainsi la nuit: V. Constellations (Parenthèse 4) 02:08
• 18 Dutilleux: Ainsi la nuit: VI. Nocturne 2 01:06
• 19 Dutilleux: Ainsi la nuit: VII. Temps suspendu 02:39
• Total Runtime 01:09:59

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Nicht alle Katzen sind nachts grau: Das Quatuor Hanson »beweist« die Umkehrung des Sprichworts mit seiner überraschenden nächtlichen Odyssee. Von Bartóks volkstümlichen Einflüssen in seinem zweiten Streichquartett, die von Mitteleuropa bis in den Maghreb reichen, über Dutilleux’ impressionistische Träume in Ainsi la nuit bis zu Ligetis meisterhaften Métamorphoses nocturnes, gibt es in dieser Aufnahme eine bewegte, unermüdliche und farbige Nacht zu entdecken. Sie enthüllt eine geheimnisvolle Landschaft, die sich ständig zwischen Bewusstsein und Schlaf, zwischen Traum und Halluzination bewegt und sich ständig verändert. Nach einem von der Kritik hochgelobten Haydn-Album, das mit dem Diapason d’or des Jahres 2020 ausgezeichnet wurde, führt das französische Quartett nun in einige der schönsten Kammermusikwerke des 20. Jahrhunderts ein.

Quatuor Hanson

Quatuor Hanson
Founded in 2013, the Quatuor Hanson was formed at the behest of Hatto Beyerle (European Chamber Music Academy), the Quatuor Ebène, and Jean Sulem at the Paris Conservatoire. Acting on their advice, they made Haydn string quartets their musical and aesthetic touchstone. The study of classical pieces allows them to reveal Haydn’s rhetorical identity - often whimsical, and always poetic. They have concurrently played works of contemporary composers such as Toshio Hosokawa, Wolfgang Rihm or Mathias Pintscher, whose piece Figura IV they they were the first to play in France at the IRCAM Festival. For them, appropriating the music of their time triggers a reflection on the role of the performing musician and his place in modern times. Through its intertextual links and anachronistic encounters, the Quatuor Hanson has made this overall view of the repertoire the driving force behind a necessary reflection for today’s musician.

Supported by the Banque Populaire Foundation, as well as the Singer-Polignac Foundation in Paris, where they are currently in residence, the four musicians have won many international competitions: 2nd Prize at Geneva International Music Competition in 2016, as well as 2nd Prize at International Joseph Haydn Chamber Music Competition in Vienna in 2016, where they were honoured with several other special prizes (Haydn Prize, Audience Prize and Prize for the Best Interpretation of a Work from the 20th century) and 3rd Prize and Audience Prize at the Lyon International Chamber Music Competition in 2015. They have been invited to many prestigious festivals such as Printemps Musical des Alizés (Morocco), and the Deauville, La Roque d’Anthéron, and Aix-en-Provence festivals (all France). Their concerts at London’s Wigmore Hall, Paris’s Maison de la Radio, Geneva’s Victoria Hall and at Vienna’s ORF Kulturhaus have allowed them to distinguish themselves in Europe and further afield in countries such as China, Morocco and Norway among others. During the 2016/17 season, they played Beethoven’s String Quartet No.7 at the Salle Cortot, organised by the Centre de Musique de Chambre of Paris, and took part in three radio broadcasts of the programme “Plaisir du Quatuor” on France Musique, with the classical aesthetic of Haydn and Mozart as a central theme.

In order to enrich themselves through outside influences, the four musicians have collaborated with some outstanding talent including Mathieu Herzog, Miguel Da Silva, Peter Cropper or Johannes Meissl, and often share the stage with musicians such as Michel Lethiec, Paul Meyer, Bruno Philippe, Vadim Kholodenko, Amaury Viduvier, and Guillaume Bellom. The shared enthusiasm arising from these exchanges opens up for the String Quartet a new land of exploration and discovery. Thanks to these encounters and the search for every work’s essence, the Quatuor Hanson hopes to offer a concert experience that goes beyond the mere performance – an emancipation for performer and spectator alike, both moving towards the liberating essence of all music.

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