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Quartets: One–Four

Quartets: One–Four

Peter Gregson, Richard Harwood, Warren Zielinski
2022

The Scottish composer/cellist Peter Gregson has written film and ballet scores, reworked Bach’s Cello Suites for a new generation and is generally regarded as a renaissance man of the classical music industry. Yet of all the work he has created, Gregson’s new album, Quartets: One – Four, is, he says, his “most personal project” yet. Conceived in 2016 “as a break from back-to-back film and game scores”, this sequence of four works for a typical string quartet of two violins, viola and cello came from a very private place in Gregson’s musical imagination. “I wanted to carve out some space to write music for myself with no brief, no deadline, no rules,” he tells Apple Music. And while the instruments used on the album are traditional, Gregson’s treatment of the string quartet format—a “deliciously expressive medium,” he calls it—boldly flouts established conventions. In Quartets: Two, he uses synthesisers “to add propulsion and depth” to the basic quartet sound. Quartets: Three goes even further, with the electronics “baked in, much more subtle,” says Gregson. Even in the all-acoustic Quartets: One and Quartets: Four, he is constantly exploring new shapes and sonic combinations. Tweaking the listener’s ear with novelty is, however, absolutely not what Gregson is bent on achieving. “The electronics I chose for this body of work—the reverbs, delays, harmonisers, synthesisers, tapes—were all physically present and being recorded just as carefully as the quartet themselves, all being committed to tape at the same time,” he says. “I wanted to explore the idea of ‘natural electronics’, a breathing sonic landscape where the natural warmth of the string quartet and the potentially cold world of electronics can coexist. And because we recorded it all in Spatial Audio, you really are hearing this music from inside the quartet, which makes it all sound as if we’re performing the music just for you.”

Peter Gregson
Quartets: One
23:05
I. Primary Colours
Warren Zielinski, Richard Harwood, Magdalena Filipczak, Peter Gregson, Meghan Cassidy
6:10
II. The Day Before
Richard Harwood, Magdalena Filipczak, Warren Zielinski, Peter Gregson, Meghan Cassidy
3:10
III. Sequence
Peter Gregson, Magdalena Filipczak, Warren Zielinski, Richard Harwood, Meghan Cassidy
2:31
IV. Space
Ashok Klouda, Peter Gregson, Laurie Anderson, Warren Zielinski, Magdalena Filipczak
5:12
V. Duplicity
Warren Zielinski, Magdalena Filipczak, Laurie Anderson, Peter Gregson, Ashok Klouda
6:00
Peter Gregson
Quartets: Two
19:10
I. Sequence (Four)
Warren Zielinski, Meghan Cassidy, Richard Harwood, Peter Gregson, Magdalena Filipczak
4:30
II. Warmth
Peter Gregson, Ashok Klouda, Laurie Anderson, Warren Zielinski, Magdalena Filipczak
4:22
III. Plainchant
Warren Zielinski, Laurie Anderson, Magdalena Filipczak, Ashok Klouda, Peter Gregson
4:21
IV. Drone
Ashok Klouda, Laurie Anderson, Magdalena Filipczak, Warren Zielinski, Peter Gregson
5:55
Peter Gregson
Quartets: Three
25:56
I. Even
James Boyd, Warren Zielinski, Peter Gregson, Ben Hancox, Richard Harwood
5:37
II. Up
Peter Gregson, James Boyd, Richard Harwood, Ben Hancox, Warren Zielinski
2:43
III. Sequence (Eight)
Peter Gregson, Warren Zielinski, Richard Harwood, Ben Hancox, James Boyd
3:19
IV. Cantus
James Boyd, Warren Zielinski, Peter Gregson, Richard Harwood, Ben Hancox
4:49
V. Murmuration
Richard Harwood, Ben Hancox, Warren Zielinski, Peter Gregson, James Boyd
3:37
VI. …from a memory
Peter Gregson, Richard Harwood, James Boyd, Ben Hancox, Warren Zielinski
5:49
Peter Gregson
Quartets: Four
14:58
I. Three Parallels: 1
Carducci String Quartet, Peter Gregson
5:14
II. Three Parallels: 2
Peter Gregson, Carducci String Quartet
5:02
III. Three Parallels: 3
Peter Gregson, Carducci String Quartet
4:41

10 November 2022 18 Tracks, 1 hour 23 minutes ℗ This Compilation 2022 Peter Gregson, under exclusive license to Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin

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Deutsche Grammophon

  • Peter Gregson

    Composer

  • Peter Gregson

    Synthesiser, Synthesiser Programming, Cello

  • Richard Harwood

    Cello

  • Warren Zielinski

    Violin

  • Laurie Anderson

    Viola

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