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Composer: Gudmundsen-Holmgreen, Pelle

String Quartet No. 2, "Quartetto facile"

Nordic String Quartet

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Year of Production: 2019

Playing Time: 00:02:02

Catalogue Number: NVF0079

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Quartet No. 2, Quartetto facile in four movements, organised in a traditional pattern with the scherzo-like second movement followed by a slower third movement, has thematic material which is present in all the movements. Narrow intervals that expand and contract once more in a way that owes a debt to Bartok's motif technique, but that maybe is also a portent of the grid that emerges almost 15-20 years later? In the conclusion of the third movement, quiet trills form a static sound image that simultaneously shows the influence of Bartok and points forward towards the motionless cicada noise of the fourth quartet.