What do you get when you pair a GRAMMY®-winning production team with a sharp-dressed string quartet and a diverse suite of contemporary classical music? QUADRANTS VOL. 5, the recent visual album release from the Benda Quartet and Navona Records, is a prime example.
Originally an Apple Music exclusive, the visual component of QUADRANTS VOL. 5 became more widely available via YouTube on February 19th. Eloquent, precise, and hypnotic, this program is a crystal-clear reflection of the musical and technical heights of the string quartet genre.
Experience the Full Visual Album from Navona Records
The award-winning Benda Quartet assembles on this program to deliver a stunning, razor-sharp collection of contemporary string works. Composers Christopher J. Hoh, Ferdinando DeSena, Christopher Brakel, Michael Murray, and Paul Halley offer a wide range of sounds and emotions in this body of work, ranging from warm, elegant expressions to high-octane passages and more.
On The Program:
Learn more about the inspirations, processes, and realizations behind these composers’ works in the album’s Artist Roundtable.
Operating as a coal mine nearly 30 years ago, Ostrava’s Důl Michal has since become a museum honoring the location’s status as an Anchor point on the European Route of Industrial Heritage. The PARMA production team saw it differently. To them, it was the perfect site to film the video component of this visual album.
Get an inside look at the recording of QUADRANTS VOL. 5 in PARMA’s Production Recap.
The works for QUADRANTS 5 were selected from submissions to one of PARMA’s Featured Recording Opportunity by PARMA.
