Product Details
- An MVD Exclusive
- SKU: ZM201908
- Format: CD
- UPC: 880956190822
- Street Date: 08/23/19
- PreBook Date: 07/19/19
- Label: Zoho »
- Genre: Classical
- Run Time: 69 mins
- Number of Discs: 1
- Year of Production: 2019
- Box Lot: 30
- Territory: WORLD
- Language: English
Product Assets
Sirius Quartet - New World
8 new works & two Beatles and Radiohead songs, for string quartet- the
- List Price: $16.99
- Your Price: $16.99
- In Stock: 6
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The Sirius Quartet, the leading string quartet in international contemporary music, reflects on the immigrant experience after the 2016 election of President Donald Trump, in eight new works and two new arrangements of songs by Lennon/McCartney and Radiohead.
The title track by violinist Gregor Huebner won the Grand Prize in the New York Philharmonic's ''New World'' 2017 Composition Challenge.
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Press Quotes
New York's Sirius Quartet put together this program as an 'artistic reaction to the seismic disruptions caused by the election of US President Trump in 2016.' It consists of works either written or arranged by members of the quartet, and includes arrangements of pop songs by the Beatles ('Eleanor Rigby') and Radiohead ('Knives Out'). Stylistically, the music tends to be veer from tense and angry to elegiac, as one might expect: violinist Fung Chern Hwei's arrangement of Stanley Myers' 'Cavatina' is simple, lovely, and deeply sad; violinist Gregor Huebner's arrangement of 'Knives Out' is a frenetic, herky-jerk splutter of rage and frustration. The original compositions are the biggest draw here, though, and are stylistically varied and passionately rendered.
—Rick Anderson, CDHotlist October 2019
