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Two String Quartets by Helen Ottaway

by Astaria String Quartet

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String Quartet No.1 - Bramcote 03:50
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String Quartet No. 1 - Woodthorpe 02:26
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String Quartet No.1 - Clumber 02:30
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String Quartet No.1 - Kelham 02:52
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String Quartet No.1 - Ruddington 03:35
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Rain (String Quartet No.2) 09:11
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String Quartet No.1, 1998, was commissioned by Nottinghamshire County Council for the 'Music in Quiet Places' series. The five movements are inspired by and named after the places in the county where the first performances took place: 1. Bramcote – the architectural curves and arches of the church built on the site of an earlier, sunken, church; 2. Woodthorpe – light streaming through stained glass, images of trees, weightlessness; 3. Clumber – The delicate filigree of the ironwork and the many images of angels; 4. Kelham – The image captured by photographer Eve Arnold depicting the director of the seminary mowing the lawn with his habit tucked up and flying out behind him; 5. Ruddington - a story told by one of the staff of the Framework Knitters Museum which describes the congregations of the different denominations of Methodists in the village singing and calling to each other on their way to chapel on Sunday morning. The final movement is also a ‘knitting together’ of themes from the preceding movements.
Rain (String Quartet No.2), 2003, was commissioned by Bath Film Festival as an accompaniment to the black and white silent film, ‘Regen’ (Rain, 1929) by Joris Ivens. The film is set in Amsterdam and depicts life in the city on a rainy day. The film's focus shifts from city life to the rainstorm itself, and its transformative effect. Images include light on water; the prow of a boat cutting through the water, car, tram and bicycle wheels, shadows, the skyline, a man checking for rain and then turning his collar up, boats and birds, open umbrellas, close-ups of drips and puddles, rain on windows, in gutters, on water, reflections...... The concert version of the quartet is a reduced version of the film score.

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released October 2, 2015

Composer: Helen Ottaway
Performed by: The Astaria String Quartet
Recorded by: Alastair Goolden
Recorded at: Cooper Hall, Frome
Thanks to Morag McLaren and Fay Goodridge
Album artwork by David Caines
Cover photo Geoff Yale / EyeEm / Getty Images

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Helen Ottaway Frome, UK

Helen Ottaway is a composer and installation artist specialising in collaborative, site-specific and participatory work. Artmusic creates sound installations for a wide variety of spaces indoor and out sometimes involving the stretching of sound and music across urban and rural sites.

Helen's music is inspired by places, buildings and landscapes and frequently has a connection with water. ... more

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