Already It Is Dusk (String Quartet 1) (Hawkes Pocket Score - HPS 1192)
String Quartet No. 1
Henryk Mikolaj Górecki
Already It Is Dusk (String Quartet 1) (Hawkes Pocket Score - HPS 1192)
String Quartet No. 1
Henryk Mikolaj Górecki
Series: Hawkes Pocket Scores
Vol No: HPS 1192
Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes MP Ltd.
Catalogue No: M060090172
ISMN: 9790060090172
Shop Product Code: 184509H
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Inspired by a Renaissance motet, Already it is dusk is a compact single movement whose ideas, with folk and sacred overtones, alternate before conflicting in a fraught central section and moving apart in the conclusion. With a variety of allusions to Beethoven, Quasi una fantasia unfolds over 4 movements, the funereal tread of its Largo making way for an often aggressive Deciso then an eloquent Arioso, before the Allegro attempts a synthesis fulfilled only by a fatalistic return to the beginning