Miró Quartet - Home (2024)

The Miró Quartet presents Home, a new album that explores the many concepts of what the term “home” can mean. Its complexity is woven in a variety of ways into the music: the pieces, all composed by Americans past and present, invite you to feel, reflect, and engage in Miró’s world.

In this regard, the album also represents the United States, Miró’s artistic home, in many ways. The program presents two new commissions by Kevin Puts and Caroline Shaw, as well as known and lesser known works by George Walker and Samuel Barber.

This is the Miró Quartet’s second album on Pentatone, following the recording of Beethoven’s Complete String Quartets.

Tracklist
01. Puts- Home- Warm, with rubato
02. Puts- Home- Faster, refreshed
03. Puts- Home- Dangerously fast
04. Walker- Quartet No. 1- II. Molto adagio
05. Shaw- Microfictions[volume 1]- I. Under the hot sun…
06. Shaw- Microfictions[volume 1]- II. The photographs smeared…
07. Shaw- Microfictions[volume 1]- III. The summer storm laughed…
08. Shaw- Microfictions[volume 1]- III & 1-2. Between the third and fourth…
09. Shaw- Microfictions[volume 1]- IV. The complete taxonomy…
10. Shaw- Microfictions[volume 1]- V. Waking up on the early side…
11. Shaw- Microfictions[volume 1]- VI. The mountains folded in…
12. Barber- String Quartet in B Minor, Op. 11- I. Molto allegro e appassionato
13. Barber- String Quartet in B Minor, Op. 11- II. Molto adagio
14. Barber- String Quartet in B Minor, Op. 11- III. Molto allegro (come prima) - Presto
15. Arlen- Over the Rainbow (Arr. for String Quartet by William Ryden)