SKU: HL.48024349

9.0x12.0x0.44 inches.

Olga Neuwirth's string quartet, written in 2009, is a homage to the American artist Henry Darger and his only posthumously discovered, richly illustrated book manuscript of the same name. Neuwirth associates this overabundance of ideas with short, strikingly contrasting sentences in which fragile textures overlap. Neuwirth's third engagement with the genre string quartet was premiered in 2010 by the Arditti Quartet in Paris.

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SKU: HL.48025144

UPC: 196288096030.

Ukrainian Sketches, written in 1941, is the last surviving work by the Polish-Ukrainian composer Józef Koffler. Originally a follower of the Second Viennese School, Koffler, himself a professor and functionary in Soviet Ukraine, had to change his style in the face of enormous political pressure. Despite the harsh circumstances, these six miniatures for string quartet are free of all kitsch of 'socialist realism' and radiate an independent expressiveness and immediate lyricism in the interweaving of Eastern European folklore and the classical string quartet tradition.

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