Artist: Quatuor Arod
Title: Debussy, Attahir, Ravel
Year Of Release: 2023
Label: Warner Classics
Genre: Classical
Quality: 24bit-96kHz FLAC (tracks+booklet)
Total Time: 01:18:12
Total Size:  1.33 GB

Tracklist:

1. Debussy: String Quartet in G Minor, Op. 10, CD 91, L. 85: I. Animé et très décidé (6:44)
2. Debussy: String Quartet in G Minor, Op. 10, CD 91, L. 85: II. Assez vif et bien rythmé (3:58)
3. Debussy: String Quartet in G Minor, Op. 10, CD 91, L. 85: III. Andantino doucement expressif (8:19)
4. Debussy: String Quartet in G Minor, Op. 10, CD 91, L. 85: IV. Très mouvementé et avec passion (7:33)
5. Attahir: Al' Asr: I. Intense (3:52)
6. Attahir: Al' Asr: II. Ancora poco più mosso (3:54)
7. Attahir: Al' Asr: III. Lontano e misterioso (3:45)
8. Attahir: Al' Asr: IV. Agitato (6:06)
9. Attahir: Al' Asr: V. Fuga (5:23)
10. Ravel: String Quartet in F Major, M. 35: I. Modéré - Très doux (8:37)
11. Ravel: String Quartet in F Major, M. 35: II. Assez vif. Très rythmé (6:28)
12. Ravel: String Quartet in F Major, M. 35: III. Très lent (8:42)
13. Ravel: String Quartet in F Major, M. 35: IV. Vif et agité (4:59)

The string quartets of Debussy and Ravel, composed within a decade of each other, make a natural pairing. The Arod Quartet, celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2023, sets these two belle époque masterpieces in a present-day context with a third work: Al Asr, by the young French composer Benjamin Attahir. The scope of this Erato release is further expanded with a DVD documentary about the Arod Quartet, entitled Ménage à quatre and directed by Bruno Monsaingeon. His first experience of the Arod Quartet was a revelation: “Had I ever heard such sheer strength of attack, such dramatic power, such a variety of sonic colour or dramatic range – all combined with such prodigious delicacy of phrasing?” It was in 2017 that the Arod Quartet gave the premiere of Benjamin Attahir’s Al Asr, a substantial work which takes poetic inspiration from the Muslim afternoon prayer and the intense heat of the moment midway between noon and sunset. “Al Asr is dedicated to my wonderful friends in the Quatuor Arod,” says Attahir. “They have brought it to life in a way I would never have dared to dream.”