The Last Quartets

Tempera Quartet · Pehr Henrik Nordgren

2010 · ABCD 308

Credits

Performers: Tempera Quartet
Composers: Pehr Henrik Nordgren

About this release

Nordgren's music gives grace
"The end result is a very expressive texture, a mythical chyme of rich details. The Tempera Quartet controls the entire scale of music, both moving and gripping soul wrestling."
Jukka Isopuro / Helsingin Sanomat

Tracks

String Quartet No. 10 Op. 142 (2007)
1.Nocturne, Adagio sostenutocomp. Pehr Henrik Nordgren (1944-2008)ISRC FIABA10001299:39
2.Scherzo, Allegrocomp. Pehr Henrik Nordgren (1944-2008)ISRC FIABA10001303:36
3.Passacaglia, Andantecomp. Pehr Henrik Nordgren (1944-2008)ISRC FIABA10001315:07
4.Finale (Mattinata)comp. Pehr Henrik Nordgren (1944-2008)ISRC FIABA10001328:43
String Quartet No. 11 Op. 144 (2008)
5.Prelude (Tranquillo)comp. Pehr Henrik NordgrenISRC FIABA10001332:05
6.Rondo (Flessibile)comp. Pehr Henrik NordgrenISRC FIABA10001345:46
7.Lamentations (Adagio)comp. Pehr Henrik NordgrenISRC FIABA10001358:59
8.Postludio (Pietoso)comp. Pehr Henrik NordgrenISRC FIABA10001364:01

Reviews

Nordgrenin musiikki antaa armon
”Lopputuloksena on hyvin ekspressiivinen kudos, rikkaiden yksityiskohtien myyttinen kymi. Tempera-kvartetti hallitsee musiikin koko asteikon, niin liikuttavuuden kuin kouraisevan sielunpainin.”
Jukka
Helsingin Sanomat · Jukka Isopuro
“I feel that quartets are in a way the genre
in which I am most at home. I use the instruments rather mildly,
without any great technical finesse.” These words by the late
Pehr Henrik Nordgren make it clear that his string quartets were
important in his large and varied output. To that medium he often
confided his most intimate inner self.
MusicWeb International
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This CD brings together music from three composers from what has been described as the post-Sibelius generation of Finnish music, that is composers who compose in a more modern, some might say avant-garde idiom. Whilst the names of Einojuhani Rautavaara and Kalevi Aho are becoming fairly well known, that of Per Henrik Nordgren is still relatively unknown, in the UK at least, I only have one disc of his music, a wonderful recording of his last two string quartets, numbers 10 and 11, on Alba…
MusicWeb International · Stuart Sillitoe · July 26, 2018
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