String quartets

"Kristian's diverse musical background is reflected in the wide array of music he composes, uniting ethnic music with new compositional techniques. In Blak's work as classical composer his six string quartets have a central role. These quartets ... show Blak's inspiration from nature, ethnic music, visual art, ballet, poetry, improvised music and for instance his use of ideas like deriving melodic material from contours of Faroese mountains seen from sea. NeoQuartet, with whom Faroese Composers now has had an important collaboration last two years is based in Gdansk in Póland. This recording is recorded and released in connection with Kristian Blak's 75th birthday March 31st 2022".

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