Andrew Tholl: violin - Andrew McIntosh: violin, viola - Ashley Walters: cello - Mark Menzies: violin, viola, piano
Influences
Dmitri Shostakovich, Sergei Prokofiev, J.S. Bach, Gustav Mahler, Igor Stravinsky, Benjamin Britten, Alfred Schnittke, James Tenney, Luigi Nono, Antonio Vivaldi, George Crumb, John Cage, Carsten Hennig, Aaron Helgeson, Sylvano Bussotti, Salvatore Sciarrino, Iannis Xenakis, Luciano Berio, Gerard Grisey, Arnold Schoenberg, Karlheinz Stockhausen, John Adams, Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Brian Ferneyhough, Olivier Messiaen, David T. Little, etc...
Sounds Like
a string quartet playing Shostakovich and other comptemporary and not-so contemporary music
The Formalist Quartet is an ensemble dedicated to performing a variety of works ranging from baroque to contemporary works and world premiers. Their debut performance was given on September 25th, 2006, the 100th birthday of Dmitry Shostakovich, to honor his music and his memory. Since then the quartet has performed many more of his works as an ongoing project to perform all fifteen string quartets. Other composers the quartet has played include Ori Barel, Ryan Tanaka, Aaron Helgeson, Juan Cristobal Cerillo, Carsten Hennig, Luigi Nono, Igor Stravinsky, Mauricio Rodriquez, Kristian Ireland, Leos Janacek, Alfred Schnittke, David T. Little, Martin Loyato, Sean Shepherd, Art Jarvinen, James Tenney, and many others. Past performances have been given at the Roy O. Disney Hall at CalArts; REDCAT at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles; the University of California, San Diego; the University of Nevada, Reno; Cornelia Street Cafe, New York; MOSA Concert Series, New York; Princeton University; Stanford University; University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; Flatfile Galleries, Chicago; the Eagle Rock Center for the Arts; and the Villa Aurora, Pacific Palisades; the Festival of Microtonal Music; and the Et Cetera New Music Festival. Upcoming projects include a CD, a second East Coast tour, and an eventual China tour featuring repertoire by Roger Reynolds, Luigi Nono, Steve Reich, Timothy McCormack, Alban Berg, Alfred Schnittke, and others.
love love love the recordings. could you possibly post the composers in a blog entry or something of the sort? i am very interested to know who all of the different works are by...
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I added a sample of my STRING QUARTET NO. 2 (THE GATHERING) performed by the St. Lawrence String Quartet on the attached flash audio player and I would like to invite you to listen to it. A sample of my STRING QUARTET NO. 1 (THE AWAKENING) is still available on my MySpace audio player. Thank you for the friendship and...
Thanks for becoming a friend. Your group sounds great. The Allegro (composer Aaron who?) and the Ryan Tanaka pieces were great to hear. Thanks for playing 21st century music. The west coast needs this energy! I have some String Quartet pieces that might interest you (performed by the St. Lawrence quartet). Come take a look when you have a moment. Thanks.
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nostalghia, for string quartet, tape, and live el.
Si oscura la vista..
La mia forza sono due occulti dardi adamantini..
Si confonde l’udito per il tuono lontano
della casa paterna che respira..
dei duri muscoli i gambi si infiacchiscono
come bovi canuti alla radura
e non più quando è notte alle mie spalle splendono due ali…
nella festa, candela, mi sono consumato..
all’alba raccogliete la mia disciolta cera
e lì leggete chi piangere, di cosa andar superbi..
come, donando l’ultima porzione di letizia,
morire in levità,
e al riparo d’un tetto di fortuna
accendersi postumi,
come una parola..
Andrej Tarkovsky
The sight is growing dim…
My vigour are two concealed adamantine darts..
Hearing becomes confused for the far thunder
of father’s house that breathes..
hard’s muscles’ stalks become weak
like hoary oxen in the glade
and not further, when night comes, at my shoulders two wings shine..
in the festivity, like a candle, I burned out..
at dawn shelter my dissolved wax
and there read whom cry, whose be proud..
as, presenting the latest joy’s share
to die in lightness
and sheltered by an improvised roof
to catch fire posthumous
like a word…
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