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Boris Blacher & Witold Lutoslawski: String Quartets
Neues Leipziger Streichquartett
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Label/Cat#: MDG # L 3507 | Country/Year: Germany 1994
Genre: Classical | Style: Contemporary

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Das Leipziger Streichquartett ist ein deutsches Streichquartettensemble. Bis 1995 führte es den Namen „Neues Leipziger Streichquartett”. Eine rege Konzerttätigkeit durch Europa, Nord- und Südamerika, Australien, Japan, Israel, Afrika und Asien führte das Quartett bisher in über 60 Länder. Für seine circa 60 CD-Einspielungen, die hauptsächlich bei dem deutschen Label Dabringhaus & Grimm erschienen sind, wurde es mehrfach ausgezeichnet. Das Quartett war auch Bestandteil des Ensemble Avantgarde um den Leipziger Pianisten Steffen Schleiermacher.

Das Quartett spielt neben dem klassischen Quartettrepetoire auch Werke der klassischen Moderne und zeitgenössische Werke.

Es interpretierte in Uraufführungen u. a. Werke von Beat Furrer, Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf, Wolfgang Rihm, Steffen Schleiermacher, Christian Ofenbauer, Siegfried Thiele, Viktor Ullmann, Jörg Widmann, David Philip Hefti, Rainer Rihn, Ulrich Leyendecker und Bernd Franke.

Musikalische Partner des Ensembles sind u. a. der Klarinettist Karl Leister, der Cellist Michael Sanderling, der Bratscher Hartmut Rohde, die Pianisten Alfred Brendel, Christian Zacharias und Andreas Staier, die Sopranistin Christiane Oelze, der Bariton Olaf Bär und der Klezmer-Klarinettist Giora Feidman.

Das Quartett wurde 1988 als „Neues Leipziger Streichquartett“ gegründet. Drei der Quartettmitglieder waren damals als Stimmführer im Gewandhausorchester Leipzig tätig, bis sie 1993 auf eigenen Wunsch ausschieden, um sich vollständig der Kammermusik zu widmen.

Studien bei Gerhard Bosse in Leipzig, dem Amadeus-Quartett in London und Köln, bei Hatto Beyerle in Hannover und bei Walter Levin gingen dem voraus.

Seit November 1991 gestaltet das Quartett seine eigene Konzertreihe „Pro Quatuor” in Leipzig. Als Teil des Ensemble Avantgarde war das Quartett Mitbegründer der Reihe „musica nova” am Leipziger Gewandhaus.

Das Leipziger Streichquartett initiierte 1996 den „Beethoven-Streichquartett-Zyklus als Zeichen europäischer Freundschaft” der über 15 Musikstädte Europas zusammenführte. Die neun Discs umfassende erste vollständige Aufnahme aller Quartette von Franz Schubert wurde 1997 abgeschlossen. 2002 war das Quartett Ensemble „in residence“ am Auditorio Nacional in Madrid.

Am Gewandhaus in Leipzig führte das LSQ von 1993 bis 2000 zyklisch alle wichtigen Quartette der Ersten und Zweiten Wiener Schule auf. 1996 oblag den Mitgliedern des Ensembles dort auch die deutsche Erstaufführung von Alfred Schnittkes „Zu dritt“ für Streichtrio und Orchester. wikipedia

Boris Blacher (19 January [O.S. 6 January] 1903 – 30 January 1975) was a German composer.

Blacher was born when his parents were living within a Russian-speaking community in the Manchurian town of Niuzhuang (Chinese: 牛庄镇) (hence the use of the Julian calendar on his birth record). He spent his first years in China and in the Asian parts of Russia, and in 1919, he eventually came to live in Harbin. In 1922, after finishing school, he went to Berlin where he began to study architecture and mathematics. Two years later, he turned to music and studied composition with Friedrich Ernst Koch.

His career was interrupted by National Socialism. He was accused of writing degenerate music and lost his teaching post at the Dresden Conservatory.

His career resumed after 1945, and he later became director of the Music Academy of Berlin, and is today regarded as one of the most influential music figures of his time. His students include Aribert Reimann, Isang Yun, Maki Ishii, Fritz Geißler, Giselher Klebe, Heimo Erbse, Klaus Huber, Francis Burt, Gottfried von Einem, Karl Rucht, Kalevi Aho and Richard Wernick.

Blacher was married to the pianist Gerty Blacher-Herzog. They had four children including the German actress Tatjana Blacher and the international violinist Kolja Blacher. He died in Berlin at the age of 72.

Witold Roman Lutosławski (25 January 1913 – 7 February 1994) was a Polish composer and orchestral conductor. He was one of the major European composers of the 20th century, and one of the preeminent Polish musicians during his last three decades. He earned many international awards and prizes. His compositions (of which he was a notable conductor) include four symphonies, a Concerto for Orchestra, a string quartet, instrumental works, concertos, and orchestral song cycles.

During his youth, Lutosławski studied piano and composition in Warsaw. His early works were influenced by Polish folk music. His style demonstrates a wide range of rich atmospheric textures. He began to develop his own characteristic composition techniques in the late 1950s. His music from this period onwards incorporates his own methods of building harmonies from small groups of musical intervals. It also uses aleatoric processes, in which the rhythmic coordination of parts is subject to an element of chance.

During World War II, after escaping German capture, Lutosławski made a living by playing the piano in Warsaw bars. After the war, Stalinist authorities banned his First Symphony for being "formalist"—allegedly accessible only to an elite. Lutosławski believed such anti-formalism was an unjustified retrograde step, and he resolutely strove to maintain his artistic integrity. In the 1980s, Lutosławski gave artistic support to the Solidarity movement. Near the end of his life, he was awarded the Order of the White Eagle, Poland's highest honour.

The Second Symphony, and Livre pour orchestre and the Cello Concerto which followed, were composed during a particularly traumatic period in Lutosławski's life. His mother died in 1967, and the period 1967–70 saw a great deal of unrest in Poland. This sprang first from the suppression of the theatre production Dziady, which sparked a summer of protests; later, in 1968, the use of Polish troops to suppress the liberal reforms in Czechoslovakia's Prague Spring, and the Gdańsk Shipyards strike of 1970—which led to a violent clampdown by the authorities, both caused significant political and social tension in Poland. Lutosławski did not support the Soviet regime, and these events have been postulated as reasons for the increase in antagonistic effects in his work, particularly the Cello Concerto of 1968–70 for Rostropovich and the Royal Philharmonic Society. Indeed, Rostropovich's own opposition to the Soviet regime in Russia was just coming to a head (he shortly afterwards declared his support for the dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn). Lutosławski himself did not hold the view that such influences had a direct effect on his music, although he acknowledged that they impinged on his creative world to some degree. In any case, the Cello Concerto was a great success, earning both Lutosławski and Rostropovich accolades. At the work's première with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Arthur Bliss presented Rostropovich with the Royal Philharmonic Society's gold medal.

In 1973, Lutosławski attended a recital given by the baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau with the pianist Sviatoslav Richter in Warsaw; he met the singer after the concert and this inspired him to write his extended orchestral song Les espaces du sommeil ("The spaces of sleep"). This work, Preludes and Fugue, Mi-Parti (a French expression that roughly translates as "divided into two equal but different parts"), Novelette, and a short piece for cello in honour of Paul Sacher's seventieth birthday, occupied Lutosławski throughout the 1970s, while in the background he was working away at a projected third symphony and a concertante piece for the oboist Heinz Holliger. These latter pieces were proving difficult to complete as Lutosławski struggled to introduce greater fluency into his sound world and to reconcile tensions between the harmonic and melodic aspects of his style, and between foreground and background. The Double Concerto for oboe, harp and chamber orchestra—commissioned by Paul Sacher—was finally finished in 1980, and the Third Symphony in 1983. In 1977 he received the Order of the Builders of People's Poland. In 1983 he received the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize.

During this period, Poland was undergoing yet more upheaval: in 1978, John Paul II was elected Pope, providing a national figurehead of world importance; in 1980, the influential movement Solidarność was created, led by Lech Wałęsa; and in 1981, martial law was declared by General Wojciech Jaruzelski. From 1981–89, Lutosławski refused all professional engagements in Poland as a gesture of solidarity with the artists' boycott. He refused to enter the Culture Ministry to meet any of the ministers, and was careful not be photographed in their company. In 1983, as a gesture of support, he sent a recording of the first performance (in Chicago) of the Third Symphony to Gdańsk to be played to strikers in a local church. In 1983, he was awarded the Solidarity prize, of which Lutosławski was reported to be more proud than any other of his honours.

He also bought a house in Oslo and had a cabin in the Norwegian countryside. He and his wife would stay here several times a year to be near her son from an earlier marriage, who was a Norwegian citizen. wikipedia

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