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String Quartets

by Jeremy Beck

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String Quartet No. 4: I. Allegro furioso 04:35
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String Quartet No. 4: II. Grave 02:41
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String Quartet No. 4: III. Allegretto 04:30
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String Quartet No. 4: IV. Moderato 04:54
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String Quartet No. 1: I. Grave; sub. Allegro vivace 04:41
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String Quartet No. 1: II. Molto adagio 05:19
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String Quartet No. 1: III. Presto 04:04
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String Quartet No. 2: Fathers 12:35
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String Quartet No. 2: Sons 05:14
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String Quartet No. 5: I. Grazioso (attacca) 05:23
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String Quartet No. 5: II. Andante 04:47
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String Quartet No. 5: III. Con moto e preciso 04:28
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The history of the string quartet is well-known and its influence long-lasting. The masterworks composed by Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven as well as those created by Bartók, Ravel, Berg and Shostakovich continue to move listeners with their passionate intensity and intimate beauty.

The string quartet is often considered to be a touchstone for a composer of Western concert music. The genre and its history inspire many composers to inhabit and explore the concentrated nature of this medium, for through such focus and the seeming limitation of four equal voices, expansive emotional landscapes may be realized.

Through his quartets, composer Jeremy Beck provides an intriguing and inviting window into his own direct and communicative sound world. Composed over nearly 25 years, four of Beck’s five quartets are brilliantly performed here by diverse ensembles from Los Angeles, St. Petersburg, Russia, and Louisville, Kentucky. These exciting compositions reveal key facets of Beck’s engaging approach to tonality, rhythm and form.

Based in Louisville, Jeremy Beck’s music has been described as “unabashedly tonal, rhythmically intricate, … mak[ing] nods to the past while sitting squarely in the present.” (NewMusicBox, 2012). The critic Mark Sebastian Jordan has written that Beck is “an original voice celebrating music. Without self-consciousness, without paralyzing abstraction, Beck reminds us that music is movement, physically and emotionally.”

The fifth innova album devoted to Beck’s work, String Quartets is yet a further celebration of music and its exceptional power to move and inspire.

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released September 18, 2023

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Jeremy Beck “knows the importance of embracing the past while also going his own way. … [In] Beck’s forceful and expressive sound world … the writing is concise in structure and generous in tonal language, savouring both the dramatic and the poetic.” (Gramophone Magazine). ... more

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