Jürg Frey x Quatuor Bozzini - String Quartets [Collection Qb]

Released via the Quatuor Bozzini run and headed Collection Qb label on March 7th, 2k25 is "String Quartets", a collaborational release which sees the ensemble take on pieces by Swiss composer Jürg Frey. Originally put out on the circuit via Edition Wandelweiser in 2006 the recent re-issue was driven by the ensembles 25th anniversary the hour long album features a total of four compositions written in the period from 1988 to the year 2000, opening with "Streichquartett" - an eleven minutes spanning exploration of repetitive yet ever so slightly shifting Minimal Music with all four instruments playing in perfect unison whilst continuously meandering around a seemingly set set of parameters when it comes to pitch and sustain. With "(Unbetitelt) IV" we're taken into a stripped down, yet emotionally touching world of Contemporary Classical composition whereas the two micro-pieces in "Zwei Allerletzte Sächelchen" - "Mailied" and "Vorbei" weigh in a brief excursion into unscathed rural beauty before the albums main piece "Streichquartett 2" rounds things off in a surprisingly Dark Ambient-leaning manner, serving stripped down, yet highly fascinating, hypnotic and time-dissolving micro-movements at the very brink of the audible spectrum which therefore turn out to be quite an essential piece of contemporary Deep Listening Music for all genre aficionados. Go check!

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