Felipe Lara: Chamber Works for Strings
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Recording Date: 2019-2024
Recording Venue: Oktaven Audio, Mount Vernon, USA; Guarneri Hall, Chicago, USA
Release: March 2025
Felipe Lara’s Chamber Works for Strings redefines the ensemble as a resonating body, where strings become vocal cords and bows breathe sound into existence. In Corde Vocale and Tran(slate), the quartet is not a polite conversation but a raw, elemental force – organic, urgent, and monstrous. Sonare unfolds in processional waves, while Archi elastici stretches time to its breaking point, embodying breath itself. With Postcard and Prisma, Lara explores dialogue and divergence. Across these works, the voice – literal and metaphorical – becomes motion, tension, and transformation, revealing music as a vital, restless energy in perpetual evolution.
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1-1. Corde Vocale (2005) for string quartet
1-2. Prisma (2006) for violin and piano
1-3. Tran(Slate) [2008] for string quartet
1-4. Postcard (2008) for violin and clarinet
1-5. Sonare (2021) for string quartet
2-1. Archi Elastici (2014) for string quintet
2-2. Tran(Slate) [2008] version for string quartet and live electronics