Matias Vestergård: TRÆK (movements for string quartet) / NOVO Quartet

Matias Vestergård: TRÆK (movements for string quartet) I. BASTARD WING (ALULA) 0:00 II. GHOST MOVEMENT 04:00 III. STREJFFUGLE 04:08 TRÆK: noun. draft, draught, touch, feature, trait, move, migration, flight. This work was heavily inspired by the sounds of bird wings and cries, as well as the imagery of animals moving together in flocks. The third movement was inspired by a slow deliberate walk from the shore into the ocean, undertaken in autumn. NOVO Quartet VIOLIN I: Kaya Kato Møller VIOLIN II: Nikolai Nedergaard VIOLA: Daniel Sledzinski CELLO: Signe Ebstrup Bitsch https://www.novoquartet.com recorded live in Copenhagen by Yuxin Kang and Niklas Ottander march 2022