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STRING QUARTET no.9 "KING LEAR" - PHILIP GLASS

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	1.	String Quartet No.9, "King Lear": I 06:43
	2.	String Quartet No.9, "King Lear": II 04:47
	3.	String Quartet No.9, "King Lear": III 05:21
	4.	String Quartet No.9, "King Lear": IV 04:53
	5.	String Quartet No.9, "King Lear": V 05:58
	6.	String Quartet No.8: I 05:33
	7.	String Quartet No.8: II 06:25
	8.	String Quartet No.8: III 04:20

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Philip Glass, String Quartet No. 9, “King Lear”*

When Philip Glass was asked to compose incidental music for a Broadway production of King Lear in 2019, he immediately knew he wanted to write for string quartet: “I know how to write for string quartet. I love its range of emotion.” Indeed, this concert version of the play’s score is his ninth work for string quartet, a medium he employs to great effect to depict the tumult, violence, and despair at the heart of Shakespeare’s classic tragedy.
To capture the world of King Lear in music, Glass immersed himself in the historical background that may have influenced its conception: “I began picturing what it must have been like to see this piece for the first time in 1606. The Gunpowder Plot had happened only months before, in November, and the theatres were closed until the spring. If the insurrectionists had had their way, the whole government, including the king, would have all gone down. That was an astonishing event to happen in England, and it tore the country apart in many ways. The idea that part of the population would try to take down the government - it was shocking.”
For the original Broadway production, Glass spent weeks observing the actors in rehearsal, absorbing the play during the day and composing in the evenings. In this concert version, the stark dramatic landscape unfolds through Glass’s characteristic repetitive structures, oscillating harmonies and gently swaying rhythms, punctuated by icy textures heralding the monumental storm to come.

*Commissioned by Collectif Tana, Bozar Centre for Fine Arts Brussels, Ars Musica, Le phénix scène nationale Valenciennes, Festival Superspectives with Opéra National de Lyon, Tandem scène nationale Arras, Maison de la Culture Bourges, and Wigmore Hall

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released February 7, 2022

Recorded september 2021 at Théâtre d’Arras

Recorded, edited and mastered by Vincent Mons

TANA QUARTET
Antoine Maisonhaute, Ivan Lebrun (violins)
Julie Michael (Viola)
Jean Maisonhaute (Cello)

Cover : « Le roi Lear » by Michal Batory
© Michal Batory

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