American Tapestry - Calidore String Quartet - Audio CD (Arrives in 50 days)

American Tapestry by the Calidore String Quartet weaves together a panoramic portrait of American musical expression across the 20th and 21st centuries. The programme spans Samuel Barber’s lyrical String Quartet No. 1, featuring the iconic Adagio, Wynton Marsalis’s jazz-inflected At the Octoroon Balls, and John Williams’s With Malice Toward None — here in its world premiere string quartet version. The album concludes with Erich Korngold’s radiant String Quartet No. 3 in D Major, written in postwar Los Angeles. Together, these works reveal a vibrant continuum of American artistry — a sound world both richly diverse and deeply unified in spirit.

Tracklist

1. String Quartet No. 1, Op. 11: I. Molto Allegro E Appassionato
2. String Quartet No. 1, Op. 11: Ii. Molto Adagio
3. String Quartet No. 1, Op. 11: Iii. Molto Allegro (Come Prima)
4. String Quartet No. 1 'At the Octoroon Balls': Iii. Creole Contradanzas
5. String Quartet No. 1 'At the Octoroon Balls': Iv. Many Gone
6. String Quartet No. 1 'At the Octoroon Balls': V. Hellbound Highball
7. With Malice Toward None (From 'Lincoln') [Version For String Quartet]
8. String Quartet No. 3 In D Major, Op. 34: I. Allegro Moderato
9. String Quartet No. 3 In D Major, Op. 34: Ii. Scherzo. Allegro Molto
10. String Quartet No. 3 In D Major, Op. 34: Iii. Sostenuto. Like a Folk Tune
11. String Quartet No. 3 In D Major, Op. 34: Iv. Finale. Allegro - Allegro Con Fuoco

Label: Signum Classics | Origin: Holland