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Witold Lutosławski: String Quartet is a studio album by the Kronos Quartet, containing String Quartet by Polish Witold Lutosławski composed in 1964 and first performed in 1965. [1] This string quartet is an example of aleatory music, that is, music in which some element of the composition is left to chance, and/or some primary element of a ...
- Judith Sherman
- Contemporary classical
- 27 January 1991
- Nonesuch (#79255)
The String Quartet has a duration of approximately 24 minutes and is composed in two movements: "Introduction" and "Main Movement." Lutosławski described the piece in the score program notes, writing, "In this Quartet I have sought to develop and enlarge the technique employed in the two preceding works, Jeux Venitiens and Trois Poèmes d ...
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LUTOSLAWSKI – STRING QUARTET (1964) My String Quartet lasts approximately twenty-four minutes, and contains two parts: introduction and main movement. The introduction opens with a recitative by the first violin followed by several separate episodes – as if framed – by groups of octaves (C – C). A short allusion to the opening ...
1991. “The Kronos Quartet interprets Witold Lutoslawski’s 1964 String Quartet, an uncommonly difficult piece since the four musicians are commanded to play their parts ad lib, as if they were alone. Lutoslawski was influenced by the random procedures of John Cage, but he also wished to maintain dramatic structure, so String Quartet includes ...
