{"id":7835,"date":"2023-12-01T11:07:33","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T11:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neos-music.com\/?post_type=product&#038;p=7835"},"modified":"2023-12-04T12:32:24","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T12:32:24","slug":"juan-manuel-marrero-string-quartets","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/neos-music.com\/en_us\/product\/juan-manuel-marrero-string-quartets\/","title":{"rendered":"Juan Manuel Marrero: String Quartets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>JUAN MANUEL MARRERO \u2013 STREICHQUARTETTE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>About the album<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\" class=\"translation-block\">I have always believed that a composer should demonstrate the diversity of his compositional language and engage with contrasting or divergent aesthetics and techniques. In my opinion, the quartets presented in this edition fulfill both of these objectives. <em>Histoire \u00e9ph\u00e9m\u00e8re d\u2019une plume blanche<\/em>, <em>Atractivo \u00faltimo de lo imposible<\/em>, and <em>Quatuor pour un tableau<\/em> (in two parts) are to be understood in the context and tradition of contemporary European timbres and sound textures. In stark contrast to these, and indeed at their aesthetic antipodes, are <em>Two American String Quartets<\/em>, two repetitive and minimalist pieces.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Zu den Werken<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><em>Two American String Quartets: Lives in Central Park<\/em><\/strong> (2007)<br \/>\nThe idea of exploring American contemporary music came to me quite naturally in New York, USA, when I won the New York City First Prize for Composition in 2003. After three of my works had been performed at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, I composed these two pieces. In the first, each instrumental voice, each rhythmic motif develops its own routine. Just like the people who walk through Central Park again and again.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><em>Two American String Quartets: Hopper\u2019s Nighthawks<\/em><\/strong> (2010)<br \/>\nThe four strings repeat and exchange their voices in sequence, creating a varied rhythmic and melodic tapestry. Four strings, like the four figures in Hopper's painting: two men with hats, the red-haired girl, and the bartender. Each lives their own story, but all stories are similar and end in the same place: at the bar, behind the glass.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><em>Histoire \u00e9ph\u00e9m\u00e8re d\u2019une plume blanche <\/em><\/strong>(2017)<br \/>\nThrough a diverse and rich interplay of textures, motifs, colors, and sound shapes, the work is the musical realization of an extremely poetic image: the slow, gradual descent of a feather, with its many twists and turns, until it comes to rest sluggishly on the ground. The work exists in two versions: for wind septet, percussion, and strings\u2014and for string quartet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><em>Atractivo \u00faltimo de lo imposible<\/em><\/strong> (2015)<br \/>\nPrecise musical gestures and strokes that gradually build up and then destroy the sound material itself.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\" class=\"translation-block\"><strong><em>Quatuor pour un tableau: premi\u00e8re partie<\/em><\/strong> (2010)<br>As the title suggests, this quartet was composed for a painting: <em>El \u00e1mbito del Demiurgo<\/em> (acrylic on canvas, 200 x 400 cm). The work is by the Spanish painter and close friend Juan Jos\u00e9 Gil (1947\u20132023). The composition is largely inspired by this painting. The intention was to create correspondences and parallels between sound textures and plastic forms.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><em>Quatuor pour un tableau: deuxi\u00e8me partie <\/em><\/strong>(2010)<br \/>\nExpansion and conclusion of the original idea.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>About the music<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After all this: I have always believed that music must first be heard, then discovered and thus spontaneously assessed or understood before it is explained. Nevertheless, these notes are intended as a brief introduction to this part of my musical work.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Juan Manuel Marrero<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 CD<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":7837,"template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[26],"product_tag":[876],"class_list":{"0":"post-7835","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-zeitgenossische-musik","7":"product_tag-neuveroeffentlichungen","8":"desktop-align-left","9":"tablet-align-left","10":"mobile-align-left","12":"first","13":"instock","14":"taxable","15":"shipping-taxable","16":"purchasable","17":"product-type-simple"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Juan Manuel Marrero: String Quartets - NEOS Music<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ich war immer der Meinung, dass ein Komponist sowohl die Vielfalt seiner kompositorischen Sprache zeigen sollte als auch sich mit gegens\u00e4tzlichen oder abweichenden \u00c4sthetiken und Techniken auseinandersetzen. 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