Momenta Quartet
The Momenta Quartet is a New York string quartet founded in 2004 by the violist Stephanie Griffin, who still plays in it, with the violinist Emilie-Anne Gendron and the cellist Michael Haas in its recent line-up. Its programmes centre on modern and contemporary music beside older works, and it runs an annual Momenta Festival in New York, with each concert curated by a member. Its New World releases include Alvin Singleton's Four String Quartets.
New Americana String Quartets for the 21st Century
The present recording celebrates the staggering variety of the American string quartet in the 21st century. All but one of the five works was given its first performance by the Momenta Quartet, a group which since its founding nearly 22 years ago has…
Robert Morris: Carnatic String Quartet
The interesting thing about Robert Morris’s (b. 1943) remarkable career as a composer (and a theorist) is how free he is to move from composing works of great rigor with intricate integrity in his use of pitch-class design, to works of sonic beauty t…
Four String Quartets
Alvin Singleton’s (b. 1940) approach to music-making has all along been involved in an interplay with listeners and their psychology. While this does not mean he has been centered on simply pleasing his audiences, his work seems to constantly draw hi…