Utwory na płycie:

• La nuit froide et sombre
• String Quartet No. 15 in A minor, Op. 132 - Allegro ma non tanto
• String Quartet No. 15 in A minor, Op. 132 - Alla marcia, assai vivace
• String Quartet No. 15 in A minor, Op. 132 - Allegro appassionato
• The Four Quarters - I. Nightfalls
• The Four Quarters- II. Morning Dew
• The Four Quarters - III. Days
• The Four Quarters - IV. The Twenty-fifth Hour
• Come, heavy sleep

Orlande de Lassus:
La nuit froide et sombre

Ludwig van Beethoven:
String Quartet No. 15 in A minor, Op. 132

Thomas Ades:
The Four Quarters

John Dowland:
Come, heavy sleep

From the darkness of night emerges day, the cycle of nature tracing the journey of the soul. The finely calibrated emotions of Orlande de Lassus’s song La nuit froide et sombre, and of his near-contemporary John Dowland’s Come, heavy sleep, are made newly vivid in transcriptions by the Castalian String Quartet, framing a programme which exists both inside and beyond time. Profound meditations on immortality and worldliness from Beethoven and Thomas Ades receive readings of extraordinary intensity, the Quartet’s burnished tone and astounding interconnectedness making this a debut that demands to be heard.

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Recorded on 14-16 June 2021 in Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh.