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Danish String Quartet 20th Anniversary Season U.S. Tour April 13-21, 2023
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US Premiere of Anna Thorvaldsdottir's "Rituals" No images? Click here   Danish String Quartet Doppelgänger III Apr 13, 2023 / Santa Barbara, CA / UC Santa Barbara Arts & Lectures ECM Releases PRISM V on April 14, 2023 For interviews, contact Beverly at Kirshbaum Associates FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE New York, NY: March 21, 2023 -- The Danish String Quartet, celebrating its 20th Anniversary season, brings the third round of the Quartet's four-year project, DOPPELGÄNGER, to the U.S. in April. The project pairs world premiere commissions with major works from Schubert's masterful chamber music repertoire, and DOPPELGÄNGER III features the U.S. premiere of "Rituals" by Anna Thorvaldsdottir. The Quartet performs the new program on the West Coast in Santa Barbara, Berkeley and Vancouver, and on the East Coast in New York and Washington, DC. The tour also includes a stop in Madison, WI, with a program of Haydn, Shostakovich, and Britten, along with new material from their forthcoming ECM recording of Nordic and Northern European folk tunes, due out later this year. U.S. Concert Dates, April 2023 Thursday, April 13, 7 pm | Santa Barbara, CA Friday, April 14 | Berkeley, CA Sunday, April 16, 3 pm | Vancouver, BC, Canada Tuesday, April 18 | Madison, WI Thursday, April 20, 7:30 pm | New York, NY Friday, April 21, 7:30 pm | Washington, DC Programs subject to change  "The whole approach invites active, committed listening,...The group plays with virtuosity, intensity and tenderness.” -- The Guardian PRISM V to be released by ECM on April 14 PRISM V brings the highly acclaimed PRISM project to a close. In each volume of this ECM series, a Bach fugue was connected to a late Beethoven quartet which, in turn, was connected to a quartet by a later master: “A beam of music is split through Beethoven’s prism,” in the words of the Quartet. On PRISM V, 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 Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 16 in F major. Anton Webern’s early String Quartet, composed in 1905—and inspired by both Beethoven and Schoenberg—follows, and the program returns to Bach with Contrapunctus 14 from The Art of the Fugue. Throughout the series the Quartet has emphasized that “late Beethoven is not a disconnected island in music,” but rather “a continuation from Bach and the old masters,” which, furthermore, points toward the future. Previous recordings in the series have addressed the influence of late Beethoven on Shostakovich, Schnittke, Bartók and Mendelssohn. "The music on these albums is delightfully complex and open-ended…A late quartet by Beethoven is an incredibly intricate piece of art. One can spend a lifetime zooming in on every inch of the score and still find new details. Each bar, each moment is a maze of possible interpretational paths…”  "Since making their teenage debut in 2002, the musicians of the Danish Quartet have risen to the pinnacle of their profession but have never lost their expansive sense of wonder." MEDIA CONTACTS Shirley Kirshbaum, President, Kirshbaum Associates Beverly Greenfield, Director of Public Relations, Kirshbaum Associates |
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