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t.e.c.c. quartet

Minimal Music

1996

© GlassPages, 2000

Cover Picture

References

• Beoton WO-0605 (1996, Germany).

Credits

• Original music composed by Philip Glass and Michael Nyman.
• Performed by t.e.c.c. quartet.
• Philipp Beckert, violin.
• Constanze Sandmann, violin.
• Heiko Mürbe, viola.
• Clemens Krieger, cello.
• Recorded in June 1996 at Studiogalerie Kaditzsch / Denkmalschmiede Höfgen.
• Recording and Edition: Thomas Wieber.
• Production: Kristina Bahr.
• Photos: Kristina Bahr, Ullrich Eichenhauer.
• ISRC DE-L52-96-05001-10.
• © Denkmalschmiede Höfgen GmbH. 436, D-04668 Grimma (Germany).

Tracks

Philip Glass "String Quartet No. 5" (1991)

1. I (1:11).
2. II (2:20).
3. III (4:42).
4. IV (4:23).
5. V (6:20).

Michael Nyman "String Quartet No. 3" (1990)

6. Beginning (9:25).
7. Fig. b (5:59).

Philip Glass "String Quartet No. 4 (Buczak)" (1990)

8. I (6:25).
9. II (6:55).
10. III (5:08).

Total Time 52:52.

Notes

All music is a reflection of the time in which it was written. This is true of not only baroque and romantic music, but also minimalist music, which emerged in the United States in the last third of the 20th century. Its inexorably pounding rhythm depicts the merciless rush of our modern age, while its endlessly wallowing harmony responds to the need to escape reality via trance-like states.

This recording of string quartets by two typical exponents of minimalism is intended to help a style of music which was more than just a passing fad find its rightful place in the history of music. We hope that minimalist music will come to be held in the same high regard as the music of other epochs. Finally, as far as our quartet is concerned, this CD documents a deliqhtful time full of enthusiasm spent together.

- t.e.c.c. (translation into English: Abbey & Friedrich)

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