Artist: Novus Quartet
Album: Webern, Beethoven & Yun: String Quartets
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2016
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 96 kHz
Duration: 01:08:14
Total Tracks: 9
Total Size: 1,08 GB

Tracklist:

01. Novus Quartet #1 – Langsamer Satz: Langsamer Satz (09:31)
02. Novus Quartet #1 – String Quartet in F Minor “Quartetto Serioso”, Op. 95: I. Allegro con brio (04:00)
03. Novus Quartet #1 – String Quartet in F Minor “Quartetto Serioso”, Op. 95: II. Allegretto ma non troppo (06:30)
04. Novus Quartet #1 – String Quartet in F Minor “Quartetto Serioso”, Op. 95: III. Allegro assai vivace ma serioso (04:22)
05. Novus Quartet #1 – String Quartet in F Minor “Quartetto Serioso”, Op. 95: IV. Larghetto espressivo-Allegretto agitato (04:44)
06. Novus Quartet #1 – String Quartet No. 1: I. Allegro moderato (12:01)
07. Novus Quartet #1 – String Quartet No. 1: II. Andante phantastique (11:56)
08. Novus Quartet #1 – String Quartet No. 1: III. Allegro giocosamente (11:00)
09. Novus Quartet #1 – Arirang: Arirang (04:07)

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This ensemble’s playing is incredibly solid and well-balanced. All four musicians perform at the same level and their music-making is enthralling.

It was with these words that Lukas Hagen, first violinist of the renowned Hagen Quartett, described the four musicians’ artistic quality after their performance at the International Mozart Competition, held in Salzburg in February 2014, where Hagen was the Head of the Jury. The quartet went on to win First Prize at the Competition.

This first album represents a crossing of their influences, both Korean (Yun, Arirang) and German (Webern, Beethoven).

Here, the Novus demonstrate prodigious technique in the service of exceptional musicality. Their versions of Werbern’s ‘Langsamer Satz’ and Beethoven’s ‘Quartetto Serioso’ will not pale in the game of comparisons.
In the style of a Bartók, Isang Yun’s Quartet, a discovery, takes up material from brilliantly colourful Korean musical folklore. ‘Arirang’ is Korea’s best-known and most popular folk song (inscribed on the Representative List of UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity), a moving tribute from the four musicians to their homeland.

Established at the Korean National University of Arts in 2007, the Novus String Quartet is one of the leading chamber music ensembles in Korea. The Quartet studies under Professors Christoph Poppen and Hariolf Schlichtig at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich.