'Eclipse' (String Quartet No. 1) - Brett Dean
Slate Quartet
Brett Dean’s first string quartet, “Eclipse” was written partly as a personal response to the international refugee incident in Australian waters involving the Norwegian shipping freighter “Tampa” in 2001.
Dean himself says of the work in his notes, “Despite it’s political gestation and subject matter, I don’t for a moment believe that a piece of music can change the political ways of the world and my ‘Eclipse’ remains first and foremost a piece of chamber music and as such can hopefully be appreciated and understood on its own terms”
In this brand new recording, the Slate Quartet bring intense grit and sinewy tone to the central section while managing to invert that sense completely in the quieter outer movements, with stark expansiveness in the opening and circumspect tenderness in the closing moments.
- Slow and spacious, secretive 6:02
- Unlikely Flight 9:14
- Epilogue- Slow and spacious 4:28
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