Andrew List - "Time Cycles"

The first movement of a string quartet titled 'Time Cycles' by composer Andrew List. About this movement, entitled "with intensity", Mr. List quotes the following:

"The stillness, as a Chinese jar still moves perpetually in its stillness, not the stillness of the violin, while the note lasts, not that only but the co-existence or say that the end precedes the beginning, and the end and the beginning were always there and all is always there before the beginning and after the end."
-from TS Eliot's 'Burnt Norton'

String Quartet No. 5 "Time Cycles" - i. With intensity

This is the second movement of Andrew List's String Quartet No. 5, titled "Time Cycles". Written in 2015, this string quartet is made up of five movements based on texts by TS Eliot. About this movement, entitled "Frantic", Mr. List quotes the following:

"At the still point of the turning world, neither ﬂesh nor ﬂeshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is."
-from TS Eliot's 'Burnt Norton'

String Quartet No. 5 "Time Cycles" - ii. Frantic

This is the third movement of Andrew List's String Quartet No. 5, titled "Time Cycles". Written in 2015, this string quartet is made up of five movements based on texts by TS Eliot. About this movement, entitled "Tranquil and serene", Mr. List quotes the following:

"Time past and time future allow but a little consciousness. To be conscious is not to be in time but only in time can the moment in the rose-garden, the moment in the arbour where the rain beat, the moment in the draughty church at smokefall be remembered; involved with time past and future."
-from TS Eliot's 'Burnt Norton'

String Quartet No. 5 "Time Cycles" - iii. Tranquil and serene

This is the fourth movement of Andrew List's String Quartet No. 5, titled "Time Cycles". Written in 2015, this string quartet is made up of five movements based on texts by TS Eliot. About this movement, entitled "Frenetic", Mr. List quotes the following:

"And all is always now. Words strain, crack and sometimes break, under the burden under the tension, slip, slide, perish. Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place"
-from TS Eliot's 'Burnt Norton'

String Quartet No. 5 "Time Cycles" - iv. Frenetic

This is the fifth movement of Andrew List's String Quartet No. 5, titled "Time Cycles". Written in 2015, this string quartet is made up of five movements based on texts by TS Eliot. About this movement, entitled "Mechanico", Mr. List quotes the following:

"Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future, and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present, all time is unredeemable."
-from TS Eliot's 'Burnt Norton'

String Quartet No. 5 "Time Cycles" - v. Mechanico

With 45 world premieres to its credit and 100+ concert works played throughout the United States, South America, and Europe, the iconoclastic Beo String Quartet does what it loves best: playing classical repertoire, contemporary, rock, and experimental music. From the Latin “to make happy,” Beo started out as a lark. Two Mexican-American brothers, Jason Neukom and Sean Neukom, decided to record a song entitled “Happy, Happy,” composed by Sean, but for that they would need two more players. And so in 2015 the Beo String Quartet was formed. Touring the world, composing, performing, recording, teaching, and having fun, Beo has since then founded Beo Publishing, built a recording studio, and started its own recording label, NeuKraft Records.