Felipe Lara's album redefines the ensemble as a resonating body, where strings become vocal cords and bows breathe sound into existence.

Felipe Lara's Chamber Music 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.

Track Listing

Disc 1:

• Mivos Quartet - Corde Vocale (2005) for string quartet
• Duo Diorama - Prisma (2006) for violin and piano
• JACK Quartet - Tran(slate) (2008) for string quartet
• Joshua Rubin; Modney - Postcard (2008) for violin and clarinet
• Parker Quartet - Sonare (2021) for string quartet
• Mivos Quartet; Hannah Levinson - Archi Elastici (2014) for string quintet
• JACK Quartet; Experimentalstudio des SWR Freiburg - Tran(slate) (2008) version for string quartet and live electronics

Additional Details

Label: Kairos

Genre: Classical

Run Time: 91:28 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 06/06/25

UPC: 9120010284038