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COSMOS QUARTET:

INFLUENCES III (SEED 020)

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Influences III is the third album by the Cosmos Quartet, with which they close the discographic trilogy dedicated to the quartets of Johannes Brahms, a work on which they have worked and delved deeper in recent years. AfterInfluences (Seed Music, 2018), their recording debut with works by Haydn, Brahms (with his quartet no. 3) and García-Tomás, the Barcelona quartet released Influences II (Seed Music, 2023) with Brahms (Quartet No. 1), adding Beethoven's Quartet No. 11 'Serioso' and the recording premiere of Octavi Rumbau's String Quartet No. 1. In this third volume that we now present, they accompany Brahms' Quartet No. 2 with WA Mozart's Adagio and Fugue K. 546 in C minor and with a contemporary work: Patras, the two string quartets by Manuel Rodríguez Valenzuela. More information at www.cosmosquartet.com

CREDITS:
Helena Sautéviolin; Bernard Pratviolin; Lara Fernandez, viola; Oriol Prat, cello
Recorded at the Auditorio Municipal de San Francisco, Ávila, April 2024.
Music producer and sound engineer: Santi Barguñó
Photographs: May Circus
Edition: Seed Music

TRACKLIST

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Adagio and Fugue K. 546 in C minor: Adagio and Fugue. Allegro

JOHANNES BRAHMS
String Quartet No.2 in A minor, Op.51:
I. Allegro non troppo
II. Andante moderato
III. Quasi Minuetto, moderate
IV. Finale. Allegro non assai

MANUEL RODRIGUEZ VALENZUELA
String Quartet No.2 “Patres” and “Patres II”