Keller Quartet - Cantante e tranquillo

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András Keller, violin
János Pilz, violin
Zoltán Gál, viola
Ottó Kertész, violoncello

András Keller, violin
Zsófia Környei, violin
Zoltán Gál, viola
Judit Szabó, violoncello

Here Manfred Eicher and Keller Quartet leader András Keller have assembled a highly personal selection of slow movements from a wide range of works from different eras. The choice and sequence of the pieces are carefully considered. Across the centuries, beyond generic boundaries and the lives of their creators, the movements reveal remarkable similarities of expression that perhaps only become apparent in this new context.

At the same time the selection documents the quartet's 20-year collaboration with ECM and its growing maturity. Its performances invariably approach the works with integrity and an imaginative power rooted in close listening and subtle interaction. More recent readings of Beethoven's opp. 130 and 135 have been augmented with fresh recordings of György Kurtág and combined into an album with older and newer renditions of Alexander Knaifel, György Ligeti and Johann Sebastian Bach.

But there is another feature that unites the works and movements beneath the heading 'Cantante e tranquillo' (an expression mark from Beethoven's F-major String Quartet, op. 135): a sense of the ineffable. Music history knows few compositions more enigmatic in their essence than Beethoven's late quartets.