Happy start of Spring 2024! Odin Quartet in conjunction with the Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra featured “Spring Suite” on their album, “In Between the Lines”.
The album was released by Universal Music Group and is available on streaming platforms, including the fantastic iOS “Classical” app by Apple Music (link to album).
Spring Suite Music Video
Watch the music video on Youtube here.
About Spring Suite
The piece for String Quartet (two violins, viola, cello) is written in three movements:
- Awaken (2:35) – The first movement, with its organic rhythms and Dorian mode tonality, presents a renewal and rebirth of beautiful things to come.
- Bloom (1:48) – With its lyrical and flowing melodies, the second movement contemplates the delicate and subtle beauties of springtime.
- Frolic (2:39) – the third and final movement explores the light-hearted fun that spring brings to creatures big and small
More information on the album and recording
Composed by Brandon Walker
Performed by Odin Quartet:
Alex Toskov, violin / Tanya Charles Iveniuk, violin / Matt Antal, viola / Samuel Bisson, cello
Audio recorded at Desert Fish Studios (Toronto) by Jeff Wolpert, engineer
Audio and Video edited by Brandon Walker
Produced by Ronald Royer. Executive Producer was Devin Scott.
Programme notes:
SRING SUITE (for String Quartet) explores the evolution of the season between winter and summer. The lingering harsh elements of winter commence the suite with its four-note cluster. The first signs of spring soon follow in the modally based first movement, Awaken. The second movement, Bloom, expresses the re-birth of nature with a tender yearning. Finally, flora and fauna are musically alive and well in the third and final movement, Frolic.
Premiered by the Toronto-based Odin Quartet, Brandon wrote the first four musical notes of the suite as a cipher to represent the letters of the quartet’s name: “O-D-I-N”!
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