Very interesting work, Agustin. Well done.

Contemporary string quartets

Guitar: Héctor Osaky
Recording: Pro Audio S.R.L.
Mixing: Bernarda Villagómez
February 2025

URUCÚ

siento el latir de tus uñas
crepitar dentro del sueño
de la rojiza penumbra
miles de chispas se rasgan 
al desgajarme las manos
en granadas

el oráculo de fuego
temblando esquizofrénico
nos devora entre los pliegues
de las urdimbres del tiempo

mi deseo enmascarado
guarda los ecos carmines  
de un colibrí incendiado


nuestras semillas estallan
abras/zándose en la danza
revolcándose enredadas
en seis cuerdas que rebalsan


bruja escondida en la hoguera
forjas la flor del silencio
con tus yemas

no existe ofrenda para saciar
la voraz hambre del fogón


tripartita y heptahablante
la cordura se consume
todo lo que somos
se consume
en el vientre de tu noche
.


Natalia Rocha Gonzáles

Urucú (taquirari - notturno) - Flores para Nayjama

Colibrí 
Café que no pudo ser, 
Ser el café oscuro de tus ojos, 
Ojos tiernos decodificando ondas, 
Ondas de luz y retardos de guitarra
Guitarra que acompaña mi canción 
Canción codificada en tu voz
Voz de colibrí veloz
Veloces bates tus alas
Tus alas cafés 
Café que no pudo ser
Colibrí

Partituras:
https://alvarez-daniel.com/

Grabado en "Hogar de la Música"
Enero 2022
La Paz, Bolivia

Colibrí

World premiere played by the Signum Quartet, CBSO Centre, Birmingham

Volans String Quartet No. 12 played by the Signum Quartet

Recorded by Lydian Quartet

I – NODE: Tuning Knot  00:00-03:22
II – Recently Found Fragments: Chant Loop  03:28-11:38
III – Striding Rituals: Nocturnal Gatherings for Mass Wooing  11:44-17:30
III.5 or 5.IV – Optional habits  17:43-18:40
IV – CODEX: I know I know this (…almost remembering…)  18:44-25:04
V – Turn the Corner: Post-Rapture Celebration  25:08-28:04
VI - NODE: Ex nihilo…In nihil [-for Mary Ruth-]  28:05-35:30

Treatises for an Unrecovered Past is dedicated to the Lydian String Quartet and was composed as part of their Composition Commission Award, which was made possible by the generosity and vision of Marjorie B. and Martin Cohn. It was composed in San Francisco and Cambridge and is 35 minutes long.

Treatises for an Unrecovered Past (2013-14/rev. 2017) for string quartet

V1 06 String Quartet No. 3  Tapas - VI. Six

Recorded by Momenta Quartet

Apple wood is carried as a talisman to attract love and long life and apples are and important ingredient in spells of love, immortality, and healing.-from Jane Gifford’s “The Wisdom of Trees”

In the summer of 2014, the Momenta Quartet and I spent a week at Avaloch Farm Music Institute working on the beginning of a new String Quartet. Surrounded by apple orchards at this professional musician’s retreat, musicians rehearsed all day, took walks through the woods, and spent evenings listening to each other perform. There, time slowed and was reflected in the stillness of clouds hovering over a nearby lake.String Quartet: In Irish Mythology, Emhain Abhlach (pronounced similar to Avaloch) is an island paradise of everlasting beauty whose residents danced the days away. 

String Quartet: Avaloch is a single, fifteen-minute long movement. The work is dedicated to Alfred Tauber and Deborah Sherr, who had the combined vision to create an amazing place for performers and composers to unite in the creation of new and important musical works.

String Quartet: Avaloch

String Quartet No. 1 'Montes'

String Quartet No. 1 'Montes': 3rd mov Music and Land

Diana Ligeti - cello
Sebastien Vichard - piano

Recorded concert in Fontainebleau

Espace III for piano and cello

edit of sharon's "aaj ki raat" aka donna summer's "♥ to ♥ you baby"

pupi chunes - dangerous temptation

Three movements for piano trio, following the traditional fast-slow-fast model. I've tried to consciously engage with the gestural world of a kind of early Romanticism - Beethoven, Schumann - but with modal rather than tonal attitude to the notes, and with little bursts of something more jazz like - or, at times, folky. The title comes from the idea of re-wilding, which is a very contemporary idea, but also pays homage to the early Romantics' love of wildness and wilderness, and the Sublime.

(re)wilding - three movements for piano trio

Curly Compositions from a German Composer.

Not to be confused with Agustin Fernandez (without the accents) who, as far as I can tell, produces music of a very different kind.

String Quartet No. 1 'Montes': 3rd mov Music and Land

Agustín Fernández

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