Methera YAN001
Released May 2008
It was a yearning for traditional music to be heard through the voice of the string quartet that compelled Methera into existence.
It quickly became clear that Methera was about a meeting of musical minds.
Four individual musical characters with our different stories to tell; the cohesive structure of the string quartet gives
us freedom to indulge in tradition and rebel against convention.
The tunes we chose to play, both traditional and newly composed, are those that enchant us. It feels like they thread their way into
the tapestry of the string quartet and yarns such as these emerge...
Track list
- Apple Scrumping
- Tiggarvisor
- Jack's Alive!
- Copernicus
- Frenchy Set
- Mount Hills Set
- English Set
- Orange and Green
- In Its Time
- Anno 1643
- Waltz-Bourrée-Waltz
- 1st September
Review
"Methera choose and compose the most wonderful tunes, their string sound is sweet and clean, their decorations are subtle and expressive,
their rhythms are exciting, catchy and quirky, their pure intonation makes even the most extreme discords sound fantastic, and their arrangements
are original, uncompromising and clever. They make those strings ring and shout, and they make them whisper and melt. They can do a jaunty,
jolly tune set, or create an almost mystical mood in which time almost stops. It doesn’t get better than this!"
- FiddleOn magazine
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