"Waterworks" is a piece with nerve and energy, which springs from a clear and distinct idea. It sounds transparent and has a clarity that is both exciting and risky. Ore challenges the ensemble and demands a lot from it. This will become part of the string quartet canon. The work maintains a sky-high level, in that it […]
/ 05/03/2020 / codex"Waterworks" is a piece with nerve and energy, which springs from a clear and distinct idea. It sounds transparent and has a clarity that is both exciting and risky. Ore challenges the ensemble and demands a lot from it. This will become part of the string quartet canon. The work maintains a sky-high level, in that it uses all the virtuoso elements of a string quartet. You have to be a particularly good string player to be able to play this. However, it is not virtuoso just for the sake of being so. It is musically coherent. The work is beautiful, it has good energy, and it holds the listener's attention from beginning to end, throughout 20 minutes.