FourPlay's members include brothers Tim Hollo (violin and viola) and Peter Hollo (cello), Lara Goodridge (violin and vocals) and Shenzo Gregorio (viola); former members include: Veren Grigorov (viola) & Chris Emerson (viola). Although all members of FourPlay had formal classical training, the band play an eccentric form of rock music, with subtle influences from three of the four band members' Jewish heritage (although FourPlay regard themselves as an Australian band above all else) as well as gypsy, pop, folk, hip-hop, electronica, post-rock, folktronica and many other forms.
History
FourPlay's first album, Catgut Ya' Tongue? was released in 1998, and featured mostly covers (of bands including Metallica and Depeche Mode, and the theme from Doctor Who), along with a few original compositions. In late 1999, Emerson left to get married in England and was replaced by Veren Grigorov. FourPlay released their second album, The Joy Of... in 2000, which included, among other things, a two-part dub/klezmer composition, a distortion-heavy cover of Pop Will Eat Itself's Ich Bin Ein Auslander, and a gypsy-style instrumental ending with a mass scream. This was followed, a year later (2001), by a 2-disc remix compilation, Digital Manipulation, featuring work by many Australian musicians, including Machine Translations, B(if)tek and Darrin Verhagen. FourPlay have also toured abroad extensively, and supported artists including george and The Whitlams.
The first movement is a fine example of twelve-tone study. Haunting melodies are interspersed with fragmented lines in all of the voice parts to create an almost schizophrenic range of emotions that seem to pile up upon one another. It's clear that the main focus of this movement is controlled sound play, which is different for most listeners who are accustomed to a more "Western" melodic or harmonic structure and focus.
Third movement
According to Crawford's analysis (requested by Edgard Varèse), and others', the third movement is a sound mass composition in which a single composite melody line consists of successive tones from the different instruments. This is accomplished through the equality of the instruments, indicated by their cramped register and the frequent vertical crossing of their parts, legato bowing (with dotted slurs indicating preferably inaudible bow changes), and the gradual crescendos and decrescendos which are staggered among the instruments, meaning that one instrument is at its loudest while another is at its quietest. Each voice climbs over the top of the others as they move to the movement's highest dynamics, register, and climax, at which point they "break apart" or split into a four octave range created from triple-stops on all instruments. A performance in line with this reading is that of the Composers Quartet 1973 recording (Nonesuch H-71280).
The String Quartet, Op. 3, by Alban Berg was composed in 1910. It was not published until 1920.
The two-movement quartet is among Berg's most original compositions. Reminiscent of Schoenberg's F# minor quartet, the sound owes more to Romanticism than to contemporary composers like Webern.
Along with the composer's Piano Sonata, it received its premiere on 24 April 1911 at the Vienna Musikverein.
The String Quartet in B minor, Op. 11 was written in 1935–36 by Samuel Barber. Barber arranged the middle movement for string orchestra as his well-known Adagio for Strings in 1936. Barber continued to revise the piece, particularly the finale, until 1943.
Molto allegro e appassionato
Molto adagio [attacca]
Molto allegro (come prima)
Begun while living in Austria with his partner Gian Carlo Menotti after Barber's Prix de Rome, Barber intended that the quartet be premiered by the Curtis String Quartet, but did not finish the piece in time for their concert tour. On September 19, 1936, Barber wrote their cellist Orlando Cole: "I have just finished the slow movement of my quartet today—it is a knockout! Now for a Finale." Having completed a finale, the string quartet was premiered in its provisional form by the Pro Arte Quartet on December 14, 1936, at the Villa Aurelia in Rome. Afterward Barber withdrew the finale so as to rewrite it, which he did by April, 1937. He rewrote it again before it was published. The final form was premiered by the Budapest Quartet on May 28, 1943, at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.
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The Joy Of...
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Gypsy Scream (Roma Skank Remix)
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Gypsy Scream · FourPlay String Quartet · Deep Child
Digital Manipulation: the FourPlay Remix Project
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Deepchild - Gypsy Scream (feat. Fourplay)
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Created entirely on hardware, this analogue driven dub masterpiece ranges from downbeat beat-downs to fathomless prototype dub techno absorbing - elements of Basic Channel, Guidance Records lushness, and fractured Warp Records style bass experimentia....
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Cut Up
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The Joy Of...
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FourPlay String Quartet - Wish
FourPlay bring you "Wish", a powerful, haunting ballad about living in a climate-changed world. The band, who have been wowing audiences around the world for over 20 years with both their radical reinventions of pop songs and their wildly eclectic original material, have often had environmental and political themes in their music.
‘Wish’ takes this to the next step: a haunting ballad with tones of Not Drowning Waving and ‘70s folk protest songs, with powerful lyrics delivered passionately by Tim Hollo and Lara Goodridge, intricate viola lines from Shenzo Gregorio, and a soaring, poignant cello solo from Peter Hollo.
Video director Heidi Lee Douglas says, "We combined narrative and symbolic elements drawn from singer/songwriter Tim Hollo’s personal story of what inspired WISH. His daughte...
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Theme From Dr Who
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Catgut Ya' Tongue?
℗ 1998 FourPlay String Quartet
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Bound
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Bound
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August (Black Lung gently shakes the earth)
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Digital Manipulation: the FourPlay Remix Project
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Downtown Nudnik
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Now To The Future
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Originally released in 2001, Deepchild's "Chocolate Dubs" earned the accolade of being reviewed as "as sexy and addictive as nu-dub electronica gets" by esteeme...
Originally released in 2001, Deepchild's "Chocolate Dubs" earned the accolade of being reviewed as "as sexy and addictive as nu-dub electronica gets" by esteemed music journal, The Wire....
Created entirely on hardware, this analogue driven dub masterpiece ranges from downbeat beat-downs to fathomless prototype dub techno absorbing - elements of Basic Channel, Guidance Records lushness, and fractured Warp Records style bass experimentia....
www.deepchild.com
Originally released in 2001, Deepchild's "Chocolate Dubs" earned the accolade of being reviewed as "as sexy and addictive as nu-dub electronica gets" by esteemed music journal, The Wire....
Created entirely on hardware, this analogue driven dub masterpiece ranges from downbeat beat-downs to fathomless prototype dub techno absorbing - elements of Basic Channel, Guidance Records lushness, and fractured Warp Records style bass experimentia....
www.deepchild.com
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The Joy Of...
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FourPlay bring you "Wish", a powerful, haunting ballad about living in a climate-changed world. The band, who have been wowing audiences around the world for ov...
FourPlay bring you "Wish", a powerful, haunting ballad about living in a climate-changed world. The band, who have been wowing audiences around the world for over 20 years with both their radical reinventions of pop songs and their wildly eclectic original material, have often had environmental and political themes in their music.
‘Wish’ takes this to the next step: a haunting ballad with tones of Not Drowning Waving and ‘70s folk protest songs, with powerful lyrics delivered passionately by Tim Hollo and Lara Goodridge, intricate viola lines from Shenzo Gregorio, and a soaring, poignant cello solo from Peter Hollo.
Video director Heidi Lee Douglas says, "We combined narrative and symbolic elements drawn from singer/songwriter Tim Hollo’s personal story of what inspired WISH. His daughter’s anxieties about growing up in a world affected by climate change are embodied powerfully by actor/dancer Marigold Pazar. By the end of the song her character has found the courage and strength to lead us into the future."
MUSIC CREDITS
Lara Goodridge - violin, backing vocals
Shenzo Gregorio - viola
Peter Hollo - cello
Tim Hollo - viola, vocals
Engineered by Justin Tresidder at Sony Music Studios, Sydney
Mixed by Justin Tresidder at Hydrofunk HQ, Mullumbimby
Available at https://shop.fourplay.com.au/album/wish
MUSIC CLIP CREDITS:
Actor/Dancer - Marigold Pazar
Producer/Director - Heidi Lee Douglas
Art Director - Alice Cregan
Director of Photography - Meg White
Editor - Mark Middis
Make Up Artist - Rachel Coenen
Colourist - Christopher Reig
First Assistant Camera - Khoa Le
Art Department Assistant - John Irish
Wilderness Archive Footage - Rob Blakers
Grade and Online Facility - Soundfirm
Protest footage courtesy of 350.org
FourPlay bring you "Wish", a powerful, haunting ballad about living in a climate-changed world. The band, who have been wowing audiences around the world for over 20 years with both their radical reinventions of pop songs and their wildly eclectic original material, have often had environmental and political themes in their music.
‘Wish’ takes this to the next step: a haunting ballad with tones of Not Drowning Waving and ‘70s folk protest songs, with powerful lyrics delivered passionately by Tim Hollo and Lara Goodridge, intricate viola lines from Shenzo Gregorio, and a soaring, poignant cello solo from Peter Hollo.
Video director Heidi Lee Douglas says, "We combined narrative and symbolic elements drawn from singer/songwriter Tim Hollo’s personal story of what inspired WISH. His daughter’s anxieties about growing up in a world affected by climate change are embodied powerfully by actor/dancer Marigold Pazar. By the end of the song her character has found the courage and strength to lead us into the future."
MUSIC CREDITS
Lara Goodridge - violin, backing vocals
Shenzo Gregorio - viola
Peter Hollo - cello
Tim Hollo - viola, vocals
Engineered by Justin Tresidder at Sony Music Studios, Sydney
Mixed by Justin Tresidder at Hydrofunk HQ, Mullumbimby
Available at https://shop.fourplay.com.au/album/wish
MUSIC CLIP CREDITS:
Actor/Dancer - Marigold Pazar
Producer/Director - Heidi Lee Douglas
Art Director - Alice Cregan
Director of Photography - Meg White
Editor - Mark Middis
Make Up Artist - Rachel Coenen
Colourist - Christopher Reig
First Assistant Camera - Khoa Le
Art Department Assistant - John Irish
Wilderness Archive Footage - Rob Blakers
Grade and Online Facility - Soundfirm
Protest footage courtesy of 350.org
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Catgut Ya' Tongue?
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Catgut Ya' Tongue?
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Catgut Ya' Tongue?
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Now To The Future
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Now To The Future
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Now To The Future
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The Joy Of...
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Digital Manipulation: the FourPlay Remix Project
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Originally released in 2001, Deepchild's "Chocolate Dubs" earned the accolade of being reviewed as "as sexy and addictive as nu-dub electronica gets" by esteemed music journal, The Wire....
Created entirely on hardware, this analogue driven dub masterpiece ranges from downbeat beat-downs to fathomless prototype dub techno absorbing - elements of Basic Channel, Guidance Records lushness, and fractured Warp Records style bass experimentia....
www.deepchild.com
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The Joy Of...
℗ 2000 FourPlay String Quartet
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FourPlay bring you "Wish", a powerful, haunting ballad about living in a climate-changed world. The band, who have been wowing audiences around the world for over 20 years with both their radical reinventions of pop songs and their wildly eclectic original material, have often had environmental and political themes in their music.
‘Wish’ takes this to the next step: a haunting ballad with tones of Not Drowning Waving and ‘70s folk protest songs, with powerful lyrics delivered passionately by Tim Hollo and Lara Goodridge, intricate viola lines from Shenzo Gregorio, and a soaring, poignant cello solo from Peter Hollo.
Video director Heidi Lee Douglas says, "We combined narrative and symbolic elements drawn from singer/songwriter Tim Hollo’s personal story of what inspired WISH. His daughter’s anxieties about growing up in a world affected by climate change are embodied powerfully by actor/dancer Marigold Pazar. By the end of the song her character has found the courage and strength to lead us into the future."
MUSIC CREDITS
Lara Goodridge - violin, backing vocals
Shenzo Gregorio - viola
Peter Hollo - cello
Tim Hollo - viola, vocals
Engineered by Justin Tresidder at Sony Music Studios, Sydney
Mixed by Justin Tresidder at Hydrofunk HQ, Mullumbimby
Available at https://shop.fourplay.com.au/album/wish
MUSIC CLIP CREDITS:
Actor/Dancer - Marigold Pazar
Producer/Director - Heidi Lee Douglas
Art Director - Alice Cregan
Director of Photography - Meg White
Editor - Mark Middis
Make Up Artist - Rachel Coenen
Colourist - Christopher Reig
First Assistant Camera - Khoa Le
Art Department Assistant - John Irish
Wilderness Archive Footage - Rob Blakers
Grade and Online Facility - Soundfirm
Protest footage courtesy of 350.org
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Theme From Dr Who · FourPlay String Quartet
Catgut Ya' Tongue?
℗ 1998 FourPlay String Quartet
Released on: 1998-02-01
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August · FourPlay String Quartet · Black Lung
Digital Manipulation: the FourPlay Remix Project
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Downtown Nudnik · FourPlay String Quartet
Now To The Future
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FourPlay's members include brothers Tim Hollo (violin and viola) and Peter Hollo (cello), Lara Goodridge (violin and vocals) and Shenzo Gregorio (viola); former members include: Veren Grigorov (viola) & Chris Emerson (viola). Although all members of FourPlay had formal classical training, the band play an eccentric form of rock music, with subtle influences from three of the four band members' Jewish heritage (although FourPlay regard themselves as an Australian band above all else) as well as gypsy, pop, folk, hip-hop, electronica, post-rock, folktronica and many other forms.
History
FourPlay's first album, Catgut Ya' Tongue? was released in 1998, and featured mostly covers (of bands including Metallica and Depeche Mode, and the theme from Doctor Who), along with a few original compositions. In late 1999, Emerson left to get married in England and was replaced by Veren Grigorov. FourPlay released their second album, The Joy Of... in 2000, which included, among other things, a two-part dub/klezmer composition, a distortion-heavy cover of Pop Will Eat Itself's Ich Bin Ein Auslander, and a gypsy-style instrumental ending with a mass scream. This was followed, a year later (2001), by a 2-disc remix compilation, Digital Manipulation, featuring work by many Australian musicians, including Machine Translations, B(if)tek and Darrin Verhagen. FourPlay have also toured abroad extensively, and supported artists including george and The Whitlams.