String Quartet (Score) SKU: HL.48024542
Score. Composed by Johannes Boris Borowski. Boosey & Hawkes Chamber Music. Classical. Softcover. 16 pages. Duration 720 seconds. Bote & Bock #M202534915. Published by Bote & Bock (HL.48024542). ISBN 9783793141884. 9.0x12.0x0.053 inches.
In this piece, commissioned by the WDR and premiered by the Quatuor Diotima in Witten in 2016, Johannes Boris Borowski shows that, to him, the string quartet genre is a rewarding field of experimentation despite any past history: A separate architecture emerges from the contrasting of noise and sound-oriented music, an architecture which causes either rather active or rather passive listening, depending on the music's consistency. The composer got his extra-musical inspiration from Dostoyevsky's 'The Brothers Karamasov': Its hypnotic detailed drama, the rhythmic change in narrative perspective and the interconnection of crime, development and romantic novel creates a similar audience expectation.