℗ 2023 ECM Records
| Released | April 14, 2023 |
| Duration | 1h 00m 26s |
| Record Label | ECM New Series |
| Genre | Classical |
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1.1
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Vor deinen Thron tret' ich, Chorale Prelude, BWV 668 (Arr. for String Quartet)
Johann Sebastian Bach; Danish String Quartet |
4:58 | |||
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String Quartet No. 16 in F Major, Op. 135
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1.2
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I. Allegretto
Ludwig van Beethoven; Danish String Quartet |
6:52 | |||
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1.3
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II. Vivace
Ludwig van Beethoven; Danish String Quartet |
3:16 | |||
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1.4
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III. Lento assai, cantante e tranquillo
Ludwig van Beethoven; Danish String Quartet |
7:40 | |||
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1.5
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IV. Der schwer gefaßte Entschluß. Grave, ma non troppo tratto – Allegro
Ludwig van Beethoven; Danish String Quartet |
7:25 | |||
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1.6
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String Quartet
Anton Webern; Danish String Quartet |
18:01 | |||
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The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080
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1.7
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Contrapunctus 14. Fuga a 3 Soggetti
Johann Sebastian Bach; Danish String Quartet |
12:14 | |||
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Digital Booklet
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The Danish String Quartet bring their highly acclaimed Prism project to its conclusion. In each volume of this series a particular Bach fugue is connected to a late Beethoven quartet which, in turn, is connected to a quartet by a later master: “A beam of music is split through Beethoven’s prism,” in the Danes’ words. “The whole approach invites active, committed listening,” The Guardian observed. “The group plays with virtuosity, intensity and tenderness.”
The project has been eight years in the making. Now on the fifth and final volume, Johann Sebastian Bach’s chorale prelude Vor deinen Thron tret ich hiermit “opens up like a flower” (as Paul Griffiths writes in the liner notes) to preface Ludwig van Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 16 in F major. Anton Webern’s early String Quartet, composed in 1905 – and inspired both by Beethoven and Schoenberg – follows, and the programme returns to Bach with Contrapunctus 14 from The Art of the Fugue.
96 kHz / 24-bit PCM – ECM New Series Studio Masters
| Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -5.03 -10.29 to -1.69 | -27.95 -32.94 to -25.24 | -23.84 -29.50 to -19.90 | 13 11 to 15 | |
| 1 | Vor deinen Thron tret' ich, Chorale Prelude, BWV 668 (Arr. for String Quartet) | -10.29 | -30.02 | -27.0 | 11 |
| 2 | I. Allegretto | -3.11 | -28.10 | -24.4 | 15 |
| 3 | II. Vivace | -3.03 | -25.24 | -21.3 | 13 |
| 4 | III. Lento assai, cantante e tranquillo | -9.44 | -32.94 | -29.5 | 14 |
| 5 | IV. Der schwer gefaßte Entschluß. Grave, ma non troppo tratto – Allegro | -2.21 | -25.87 | -21.4 | 14 |
| 6 | String Quartet | -1.69 | -26.58 | -19.9 | 13 |
| 7 | Contrapunctus 14. Fuga a 3 Soggetti | -5.46 | -26.88 | -23.4 | 13 |