℗ 2019 ECM Records
| Released | May 10, 2019 |
| Duration | 58m 12s |
| Record Label | ECM New Series |
| Genre | Classical |
Quasi morendo
Reto Bieri, Meta4
Available in 96 kHz / 24-bit AIFF, FLAC high resolution audio formats
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1.1
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Let me die before I wake
Salvatore Sciarrino; Reto Bieri; Meta4 |
10:00 | |||
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Clarinet Quintet in B Minor, Op. 115
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1.2
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1. Allegro
Johannes Brahms; Reto Bieri; Meta4 |
13:33 | |||
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1.3
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2. Adagio
Johannes Brahms; Reto Bieri; Meta4 |
10:52 | |||
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1.4
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3. Andantino
Johannes Brahms; Reto Bieri; Meta4 |
4:50 | |||
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1.5
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4. Con moto
Johannes Brahms; Reto Bieri; Meta4 |
10:12 | |||
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1.6
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Nebenstück
Gérard Pesson; Reto Bieri; Meta4 |
8:45 | |||
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Digital Booklet
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Reto Bieri’s solo album Contrechant, released in 2011, was widely praised for the Swiss clarinettist’s beauty of tone and his uncommon expressiveness with extended instrumental techniques. Quasi Morendo begins with a new exploration of one of the pieces featured on Contrechant, Salvatore Sciarrino’s Let Me Die Before I Wake (1982), with its “whisper-quiet sound world of harmonics, multiphonics and tremolandos” (The Guardian).
Bieri is joined by Finnish string quartet Meta4 for a profound interpretation of Johannes Brahms’s Quintet op 115 (1891). Inspired by Brahms’s friendship with clarinettist Richard Mühlfeld the quintet sounds freer, and more idyllic, than the composer’s earlier chamber music, yet is one of his most meticulously constructed works. The album closes with Gérard Pesson’s Nebenstück (1998), a ghostly re-arrangement of Brahms’s Ballade, Op. 10 No. 4.
96 kHz / 24-bit PCM – ECM New Series Studio Masters
Track 5 – 44.1 kHz / 24-bit PCM
Track 5 – 44.1 kHz / 24-bit PCM
| Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -5.60 -12.23 to -2.07 | -30.51 -38.98 to -25.17 | -25.78 -34.00 to -20.80 | 15 14 to 17 | |
| 1 | Let me die before I wake | -2.07 | -25.17 | -20.8 | 14 |
| 2 | 1. Allegro | -3.27 | -27.30 | -23.1 | 14 |
| 3 | 2. Adagio | -4.00 | -26.51 | -22.5 | 14 |
| 4 | 3. Andantino | -4.50 | -26.91 | -23.1 | 14 |
| 5 | 4. Con moto | -7.50 | -38.98 | -31.2 | 17 |
| 6 | Nebenstück | -12.23 | -38.19 | -34.0 | 16 |