The Four Quarters 艾得斯

湯瑪斯-阿德斯的第二部絃樂四重奏作品《The Four Quarters》是為愛默生四重奏創作的，2011 年在卡內基音樂廳首演。這部 20 分鐘的作品描繪了一天的進程，曾獲得 2012 年英國作曲家室內樂獎。開篇樂章《夜幕降臨》以玻璃般的和聲為典型，而《小夜曲-晨露》則充滿了俏皮的撥弦。第三樂章 "日子 "以一種探尋性的輕快旋律為基調，在 "第二十五個小時 "中，作品擺脫了傳統的時間限制，在閃亮的尾聲中以 25/16 的不尋常時間符號搖擺起舞

作曲家: Adès, Thomas
樂器: String Quartet
出版社: Faber Music
原文簡介:
Thomas Adès’s second work for string quartet, The Four Quarters was written for the Emerson Quartet and was premiered by them at Carnegie Hall in 2011. The winner of the 2012 British Composer Award for Chamber Composition, the 20-minute work charts the progress of a day. Glassy harmonics typify the opening movement Nightfalls, whilst playful pizzicati abound in Serenade – Morning Dew. A sombre third movement, Days, is underpinned by a searching ostinato before the work breaks free from conventional time in The Twenty-Fifth Hour, the glittering finale which swings and dances in the unusual time signature of 25/16.