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We are the Archos Quartet, a multinational, young string quartet which was founded in November 2009 at the Musikhochschule Lübeck. The members of the quartet are: Filip Jeska- violin (Poland) , Maria Odvody- violin (Germany, who joined us recently), Radenko Kostadinov- viola (Bulgaria), Francesca Fiore – cello (Italy). The quartet has been a laureate of many international competitions. The ensemble is based in Germany and after studying in Stuttgart, Leipzig and London they currently perform in numerous venues and festivals across Europe. For more details please have a look on our Kickstarter profile page.
We came across Sinigaglias chamber music about two years ago and it was one of the biggest discoveries since we started playing together in the quartet. It was extremely interesting to learn that most of his quartet pieces were written for and performed by Josef Suk and Hanuš Wihan (to whom Dvorak dedicated his famous Cello Concerto) who both were members of the Bohemian Quartet at that time. Singaglia, a mountain and nature lover from the Italian region of Piemonte and a pupil of Bolzoni, Puccini, Verdi, Toscanini arrived in Vienna where he was introduced to Brahms and studied with Brahms’s lifelong friend Eusebius Mandyczewski and later on moved to Prague to study with Dvorak. His passion and his experiences are vivid in his music: it can be at the same time happy like Piemontese folk songs, energetic like Italian Opera, lyric like Brahms, spiritual like Mahler and bohemian like Dvorak. Somehow Sinigaglia is like a missing Italian puzzle in a Vieneese circle of romatic composers of the time. For us the best advertisement of his music is a fact that Mahler was setting his music together with Mendelssohns „Italian” for the last concert he conducted in Carnegie Hall in 1911.
We were also deeply moved by the tragic circumstances of his death. Sinigaglia was of Italian Jewish descent, suffered a fatal heart attack during the Nazis deportation attempt and thats why you could call this recording our personal tribute to the composer and in general a Holocaust „In memoriam”. We are sure that his music needs more attention after years of neglect.
Piotr Madziar is responsible for the recording using a legendary Neumann KM84 and U87i microphones from his private collection. His assistant is Pawel Gogolinski.
The pieces included in the CD:
Leone Sinigaglia (1868 – 1944)
Our expences include: renting the studio, hours of recording and mastering by sound engineer and his assistant, video production fees including editing and mastering. The bugdet for this projest is set to the minimum but we still can’t complete it without a little help from you, so please consider making a donation if you are able. We will be extremely thankful !!!
all photo credits @ Peter Adamik
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