Arcadia Quartet - String Quartets NosFor this the second volume in their series of Weinberg's string quartets, the Arcadia Quartet again presents three quartets from contrasting periods in the stylistic development of the composer. The first quartet of the self taught teenager, written in 1937, in what Weinberg later described as his 'neo impressionist' style, was heavily revised later in his life, and eventually re published as Op. 141, in 1985. (It is this revised version that has been

dreams and naïve memories

Little Jimmy doesn't record and doesn't tour

petty gamblers

highly acclaimed release for BIS - a traversal of the horn repertoire throughout some 140 years

and what so much of this album nods to - from Waylon and Willie

lead singer Petter Ericson Stakee's un-mistakable high-vocals

Sonatas Nos

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Revolving around the changing of the seasons

provided the model for the famous Adagio of the Seventh Symphony that followed it

as well as hints of African balofon

the mandolin was glorified throughout all centuries and cultures