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The Protean String Quartet

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A spectacular CD debut by a rising star quartet! Hybrid SACD and MQA-CD by Eudora, a high quality sound label! A spectacular recording debut by a rising star quartet born in Basel! Eudora, a Spanish high quality sound label, presents a new outstanding quartet in their series of hybrid SACD and MQA-CD recordings. The Plotian String Quartet is a new quartet born in Basel in 2018, led by Spanish players, and focused primarily on rediscovering the stylistic, rhetorical, and technical aspects of the musical language of the Classical and Early Romantic periods. The quartet, whose name means "versatile" or "multifaceted," is made up of members who studied at the music academies of Berlin, Zurich, Frankfurt, and Basel, respectively, and has had a remarkable recent success, winning first prize at the International Biagio Marini Competition in 2020 and at the York International Competition for Old Music in 2022. The recording of a CD has been one of the main goals of the quartet since its inception, and the unity and maturity of the quartet members that has developed over the past three years have finally provided the ideal opportunity to realize this goal. The ideal opportunity to realize this project has finally arrived.This time they combine the works of Beethoven and Haydn with the unusual string quartet of João Pedro Almeida Mota, a composer who left his mark in Portugal and Spain. An early 19th-century work that is peppered with explosions of passion amidst melancholy and gentle anguish, this is the world premiere recording of the Performing Edition by Raúl Angulo, a musicologist who represents the Spanish Arts Institute. This program reflects their message of commitment to the revival of Spanish musical heritage, and makes a spectacular recording debut. The format is a hybrid of SACD Stereo/Multichannel and MQA-CD, and the CD layer can be played back as a high-resolution source using MQA-compatible equipment. Tokyo M-Plus