New York's Tesla Quartet's name was inspired not by the scientific inventions of Nikola Tesla, but from a more poetic comment by the wild-man physicist: "Though free to think and act, we are held together, like the stars in the firmament, with ties inseparable. These ties cannot be seen, but we can feel them." The quotation gives a concrete idea of the Quartet's style in addition to its more general evocation making chamber music: the group emphasizes a sense of ensemble to an unusual degree. In the String Quartet in F ...
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New York's Tesla Quartet's name was inspired not by the scientific inventions of Nikola Tesla, but from a more poetic comment by the wild-man physicist: "Though free to think and act, we are held together, like the stars in the firmament, with ties inseparable. These ties cannot be seen, but we can feel them." The quotation gives a concrete idea of the Quartet's style in addition to its more general evocation making chamber music: the group emphasizes a sense of ensemble to an unusual degree. In the String Quartet in F major of Ravel and in the Haydn String Quartet in C major, Op. 54, No. 2, they even mute the metrical accents of the music, creating a unique floating but tense quality. Sample either of the slow movements of these works. Stravinsky's Concertino for string quartet, all slashing cross rhythms, jumps out of the program, and in general the players are aware of how they are making each of the major works its own little world: they take the uncommon step of adding entr'actes, in the form of...
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Franz Joseph Haydn; Igor Stravinsky; Maurice Ravel. New. New in new packaging. USA Orders only! Brand New product! please allow delivery times of 3-7 business days within the USA. US orders only please.
