Jürg Frey
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string quartets |
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EWR 0410 |
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CD |
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Composer: |
Jürg Frey |
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Performers: |
Quatuor Bozzini (Nadia
Francavilla, violin; Clemens Merkel,
violin; Stéphanie
Bozzini, viola; Isabelle
Bozzini, violoncello) |
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Material can be anonymous. Consider, for example,
the middle voices in medieval hymn books: unadorned, not artful, a simple handiwork,
a leisurely alternation of single notes. It might be a scale, or, beyond
music, the stones of a wall, not artfully stacked, but simply and properly,
the formal idea being nothing other than that of a wall.
When I was working on the String Quartet (1988), I
encountered the painting of Agnes Martin. I saw clear-cut forms, not
overgrown with rhetoric and figuration. Instead, sensuality, radiance and
intensity gripped the entire space.
There was a kind of visibility to her art, which I
felt corresponded to the audibility in my music. Audibility: the moment when
sound waves move in space and the air touches the body. The eardrum is the
sensory connection between the outside and the inside world: we hear the
sound and the composition.
Over the years it became more and more clear to me,
that there is no anonymous material - each material has its shape, and as
soon as it exists in space and time, it carries a distinct handwriting.
Anonymous material is rather an idea that brings the work to a point where
concentration on what is essential becomes possible, and allows one to feel
that he is starting from zero.
Jürg FreyTranslation: Michael Pisaro |
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