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Piston/ Kirchner/ Kim/ Rands/ Davidovsky - Harvard Composers/ Mendelssohn String Quartet

Piston/ Kirchner/ Kim/ Rands/ Davidovsky - Harvard Composers/ Mendelssohn String Quartet

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BIS Records
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Classical
Product No.: CBIS M1264 SA
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For almost a decade, the players of the Mendelssohn Quartet were artists in residence at Harvard University. This residency naturally gave them a great familiarity with the “Harvard composers.” Harvard University has played an important role in contemporary music in the USA. Not that there is a specifically “American” musical tradition at Harvard — rather the opposite, in fact. Walter Piston, who taught there for some 35 years, had attended Harvard as an undergraduate. But he also studied in Paris with the legendary Nadia Boulanger and was powerfully influenced by the neo-classicism of Igor Stravinsky. Many of Piston’s students became leading figures in the musical life of the USA, among them Elliott Carter, Irving Fine, Harold Shapero and Leonard Bernstein. The international influences on the “Harvard composers” were strengthened during the Second World War when Boulanger came to Boston to teach and Stravinsky held his famous lectures on the poetics of music at Harvard. For this disc, the Mendelssohn Quartet have chosen works spanning 65 years of music by composers with a relation to Harvard.

Piston: String Quartet No. 1
I. Allegro
II. Adagio
III. Allegro Vivace

Kirchener: String Quartet No. 2
I. Moderato
II. Adagio
III. Allegro Molto

Kim: Three Poems in French
I. En Sourdine (Verlaine)
II. Recueillement (Baudelaire)
III. Colloque Sentimental (Verlaine)

Rands: String Quartet No. 2
I.
II.

Davidosky: String Quartet No. 5
Dank Opus 132
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