Quatuor Hanson
AP261 - 1CD - 52' - Oct 29, 2021
At night not all cats are grey: the Hanson Quartet proves this to us with this unexpected, phantasmagoric nocturnal odyssey with Ligeti, Bartók et Dutilleux.
At night not all cats are grey: the Hanson Quartet proves this to us with this unexpected, phantasmagoric nocturnal odyssey. From the folk echoes of Bartók, originating in central Europe or the Maghreb, to the impressionist dreams of Dutilleux’s masterpiece Ainsi la nuit, not forgetting the masterly Métamorphoses nocturnes of Ligeti, this disc lets us hear a night of movement, of chatter: one that is alive. In it is revealed a fascinating landscape in constant evolution between waking and sleep, dream and aural hallucination, and one that is in constant mutation.
After a Haydn album hailed by the press and awarded the ‘Diapason d’Or’ of 2020, the Hanson Quartet returns to the disc in a voyage of initiation that is one of the most beautiful in chamber music.
GYÖRGY LIGETI
String Quartet no.1 “Métamorphoses nocturnes” (1953-54)
1. Allegro grazioso 1’32
2. Vivace capriccioso 1’59
3. Adagio, mesto 2’27
4. Presto - Prestissimo 2’56
5 Andante tranquillo 3’10
6. Tempo di valse - Subito prestissimo - Subito: molto sostenuto 2’34
7. Allegretto, un poco giovale - Poco più mosso - Molto espressivo, poco meno mosso
- Allegro energico 2’01
8. Subito allegro con moto, string. - Prestissimo 2’02
9. Allegro comodo, giovale - Prestissimo - Molto sostenuto, rubato - Lento 3’25
BÉLA BARTÓK
String Quartet no.2 in A minor, Sz 67 (1915-17)
10. I. Moderato 10’57
11. II. Allegro molto capriccioso 8’13
12. III. Lento 9’
HENRI DUTILLEUX
String Quartet “Ainsi la nuit” (1977)
13. (Libre et souple) - I. Nocturne I 3’42
14. Parenthèse 1 - II. Miroir d’espace 2’35
15. Parenthèse 2. III. Litanies I 3’03
16. Parenthèse 3. IV. Litanies II 4’19
17. Parenthèse 4. V. Constellations 2’07
18. VI. Nocturne II 1’06
19. VII. Temps suspendu 2’39
