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- Poul Ruders
Strygekvartet nr. 3 (1979)
(String Quartet no. 3 "Motet")- Edition Wilhelm Hansen Copenhagen (World)
Programme Note
This short one-movement quartet is a kind of modernization of the 14th century French motets, a cadeau to this weird and fantastic music whose abstract and almost deprecatory, introvert expression appears unaccountably modern and incredibly ancient at the same time.
Motet is a sober, cool treatise on rhythm and statics, depicted in a Gothic, crypt-like atmosphere. The almost completely non-vibrato movement is suggestive of boys’ choir, monks’ processions, and the piercing sound of musical glasses.
An ancient world is reborn and becomes the world of today.
- Poul Ruders, 1979
Motet is a sober, cool treatise on rhythm and statics, depicted in a Gothic, crypt-like atmosphere. The almost completely non-vibrato movement is suggestive of boys’ choir, monks’ processions, and the piercing sound of musical glasses.
An ancient world is reborn and becomes the world of today.
- Poul Ruders, 1979