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- Rune Glerup
Perhaps Thus The End (2017)
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String Quartet No. 2
Programme Note
The piece was written for, and dedicated to, the Diotima Quartet. As for the inspiration for this piece, I owe a lot to the works of Samuel Beckett, but also to taking a walk in the park, reading the news, drinking a beer in a smoke-filled bar, solitary hours cycling in the hills, failing to comprehend the endings, beginnings, repetitions, beginnings, endings of this world.
Rune Glerup, 2017
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[...] Glerup is a careful manager of texture, finding grace in unintuitive sounds through skillful layering – to speak merely of how, in a later movement, a harmonic pizzicato punctuates the string equivalent of vocal fry before the group pivots suddenly into stillness. [...]
25th January 2025
Discography
Perhaps Thus the End
- LabelDacapo
- Catalogue Number8.224763
- EnsembleQuatuor Diotima
- SoloistJonas Frølund, clarinet
- Released10th January 2025