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String Quartet No 11; Interscriptum; Grave (Wergo)When the Minguet Quartett rounded off their survey of Wolfgang Rihm's string quartets for Col Legno seven years ago, their final disc included just his 10th and 12th quartets. The 13th was not composed until 2011, and at that point, too, the 11th Quartet remained unfinished. By Rihm's prolifically fluent standards it took a very long time – 11 years – before the Takács Quartet finally introduced it in 2009. As the Minguet Quartett shows, it's a huge, discursive and immensely powerful work, a single span of music that lasts more than 35 minutes, but falls into four distinct sections that are sometimes convulsively violent, sometimes numbed into incoherence, while regularly flirting with tonality. Alongside it are Interscriptum, a reworking of the 12th quartet adding an extra layer for solo piano to the original quartet writing, and Grave, which Rihm composed in 2005 as […]
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