℗ 2022 The Knights
| Released | August 26, 2022 |
| Duration | 1h 15m 06s |
| Record Label | AVIE Records |
| Catalogue No. | AV2555 |
| Genre | Classical (Orchestral) |
The Kreutzer Project
The Knights, Eric Jacobsen
Available in 96 kHz / 24-bit AIFF, FLAC high resolution audio formats
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Violin Sonata No. 9 in A Major, Op. 47 “Kreutzer Sonata”
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1.1
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I. Adagio sostenuto - Presto (arr. for violin and orchestra by Colin Jacobsen)
Ludwig van Beethoven; The Knights; Eric Jacobsen |
14:27 | |||
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1.2
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II. Andante con variazioni (arr. for violin and orchestra by Colin Jacobsen)
Ludwig van Beethoven; The Knights; Eric Jacobsen |
15:21 | |||
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1.3
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III. Finale. Presto (arr. for violin and orchestra by Colin Jacobsen)
Ludwig van Beethoven; The Knights; Eric Jacobsen |
9:07 | |||
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1.4
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Kreutzings
Colin Jacobsen; The Knights; Eric Jacobsen |
6:48 | |||
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1.5
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Shorthand
Anna Clyne; The Knights; Eric Jacobsen |
11:05 | |||
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String Quartet No. 1, “Kreutzer Sonata”
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1.6
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I. Adagio – Con moto (arr. for orchestra by Eric Jacobsen, orch. Michael P. Atkinson)
Leoš Janáček; The Knights; Eric Jacobsen |
4:22 | |||
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1.7
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II. Con moto (arr. for orchestra by Eric Jacobsen, orch. Michael P. Atkinson)
Leoš Janáček; The Knights; Eric Jacobsen |
4:24 | |||
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1.8
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III. Con moto – Vivo – Andante (arr. for orchestra by Eric Jacobsen, orch. Michael P. Atkinson)
Leoš Janáček; The Knights; Eric Jacobsen |
4:18 | |||
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1.9
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IV. Con moto – Adagio – Più mosso (arr. for orchestra by Eric Jacobsen, orch. Michael P. Atkinson)
Leoš Janáček; The Knights; Eric Jacobsen |
5:14 | |||
Brooklyn-based orchestral collective The Knights release The Kreutzer Project, an album that explores the worlds of Beethoven, Tolstoy, and Janacek with orchestrations of the composers’ respective “Kreutzer Sonatas” alongside new works by Anna Clyne and Colin Jacobsen. The programme posits Tolstoy’s response to Beethoven’s “Kreutzer” Sonata:
"What exactly is it? I don’t understand. What is music?
What does it do?
And why does it do what it does?"
Beethoven and Tolstoy in turn inspired Czech composer Leoš Janáček, whose first string quartet is also called “Kreutzer Sonata”. The Knights’ response to these iconoclastic touchstones is to reimagine the Beethoven as “Kreutzer Concerto”, arranged by The Knights’ co-founder Colin Jacobsen who is also the orchestrated version’s violin soloist; and the Janáček as orchestrated by The Knights’ co-founder and conductor Eric Jacobsen. They keep the canon going with Colin’s newly composed “Kreutzings”, which makes buried allusions to both Beethoven and Janáček; and a commission from Anna Clyne, whose piece “Shorthand” takes its title from a line in Tolstoy’s novella: “music is the shorthand of emotion”.
96 kHz / 24-bit PCM – AVIE Records Studio Masters
Track 5 – 48 kHz / 24-bit PCM, mastered in 96 kHz / 24-bit
Track 5 – 48 kHz / 24-bit PCM, mastered in 96 kHz / 24-bit
| Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -0.77 -2.91 to -0.20 | -19.54 -24.16 to -16.65 | -15.72 -21.10 to -12.00 | 11 9 to 14 | |
| 1 | I. Adagio sostenuto - Presto (arr. for violin and orchestra by Colin Jacobsen) | -0.20 | -19.41 | -16.0 | 12 |
| 2 | II. Andante con variazioni (arr. for violin and orchestra by Colin Jacobsen) | -2.56 | -24.16 | -21.1 | 14 |
| 3 | III. Finale. Presto (arr. for violin and orchestra by Colin Jacobsen) | -0.20 | -20.06 | -16.8 | 12 |
| 4 | Kreutzings | -0.20 | -19.64 | -15.6 | 12 |
| 5 | Shorthand | -2.91 | -20.53 | -17.9 | 11 |
| 6 | I. Adagio – Con moto (arr. for orchestra by Eric Jacobsen, orch. Michael P. Atkinson) | -0.20 | -18.52 | -14.4 | 11 |
| 7 | II. Con moto (arr. for orchestra by Eric Jacobsen, orch. Michael P. Atkinson) | -0.20 | -17.32 | -13.1 | 9 |
| 8 | III. Con moto – Vivo – Andante (arr. for orchestra by Eric Jacobsen, orch. Michael P. Atkinson) | -0.20 | -19.52 | -14.6 | 11 |
| 9 | IV. Con moto – Adagio – Più mosso (arr. for orchestra by Eric Jacobsen, orch. Michael P. Atkinson) | -0.20 | -16.65 | -12.0 | 9 |