La Ritirata presents: Arriaga - Complete string quartets on period instruments

Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga - The complete string quartets on period instruments
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La Ritirata:
Hiro Kurosaki
Miren Zeberio
Daniel Lorenzo
Josetxu Obregón
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In this new recording the Bilbao-born Obregón is joined by violinists Hiro Kurosaki and Miren Zeberio, and viola Daniel Lorenzo; the underlying spirit of La Ritirata is of an intensive consideration of musical (and other) sources before attempting fresh interpretations of scores. This is precisely what the musicians have done for this survey of Arriaga's quartet output for Glossa -- they have also included the Tema variado en cuarteto, Op 17 -- in order to get closer to the sound world of the Spanish composer who left his native Basque Country at the age of 15 to study and compose in Paris in 1821. Five short years of life remained to him before an untimely death ended a hugely promising career.
Original scores, a violin treatise by Arriaga's teacher in Paris and the use of period instruments (for the first time on a recording of the Arriaga works) form the backbone of the critical apparatus for La Ritirata's new and vital approach to these portentous works -- by a composer for whom the ongoing reappraisal of his significance in music is currently being shorn of its romantic legend and replaced by an assessment which is still intriguing but greatly more realistic.
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