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The quartet's debut album Halvcirkel is available on LP/Vinyl, pressed by Nordsø Records.

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1.	Bodybuilding 01:42	info	buy track
2.	Allegro molto 02:55	info	buy track
3.	Allegretto 04:24	info	buy track
4.	Interlude 01:02	info	buy track
5.	Largo 05:31	info	buy track
6.	Tit er jeg glad 04:48	info	buy track
7.	Interlude 2 01:28	info	buy track
8.	Fratres 12:45	info	buy track
9.	Closing 04:48	info	buy track

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The string quartets debut album was recorded in a wooden summerhouse in the north of Denmark in 2016. The album consist of standard classical repertoire, that all has a long standing tradition attached to it. Halvcirkel demonstrates a new way of hearing the music: movements are single handedly picked out, new transitions are formed and the whole album is one-takes, recorded in a living room up close to the instruments for bringing closeness and intimacy to the sound. The album is characterised by its raw and unpolished sound, where all details are exposed: the bow meets the string, fingers tapping the fingerboard; as if you would be sitting next to them.

”...A new generation of classical artists question the cult of perfection that holds sway in the neck of the woods. Analogue records - softer, warmer, more human and more vulnerable are all part of the project. The Danish collective Halvcirkel is a physical manifestation of that concept, whose self-titled LP takes aim at notions of perfection on every level. We are presented with a sound picture equivalent to that corner-of-a-dark-room flash photography now ubiquitous in fashion magazines; the sound sounds purposefully uneven, cocking its ear towards different corners of the ensemble according to the gait of each score. The closeness and intensity of that sound picture, all the more human when exhaled from an analogue source, has a different resonance away from the nervous edge of Shostakovich. The hesitance in Pärt ́s Fratres if particularly affecting when you’re listening close, as is the fragility with which the outline of Nielsen ́s song I’m often glad (Tit er jag glad) is traced. Best of all, perhaps, is the view we get off Glass ́s Closing, as if from under the belly of the composer’s shuffling quadruped. The quartet’s sparing use of vibrato reinforces the idea of a bedroom performance as much as the close sound does.”

- Andrew Mellor in The Gramophone, 2018

”Marvellously beguiling and original, intimate and intense.. A different experience, but every bit as intense and evocative, emphasising what a versatile and multifaceted ensemble Halvcirkel is. In many ways it is cheeky, some may even say provocative, to play a Shostakovich quartet in this manner. To my mind it is a stroke of genius and exquisitely played, to boot. For at its core, Halvcirkel is a string quartet of a very high order of achievement, and this is evident in everything they do. Pärt’s Fratres follow, this time with the quartet on their own. The string quartet version has been recorded several times, but this reading by Halvcirkel rivals the best I’ve heard. The record ends suitably enough with Closing from Glass’s string quartet no. 3. Soundtrack music from the film, Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, and a grippingly beautiful end to a most beguiling debut.”

- from Klassisk ifølge Sørensen by Henrik Sørensen, 2017

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released February 17, 2017

Bettina Marie Ezaki - violin
Caecilie Balling - violin
Mika Persdotter Svensson - viola
Nicole Hogstrand - cello

Recorded 26-29 September 2016 by Tommy Kamp Vestergaard & Jonathan Bremer in Simon & Birthes house in Tisvilde, Denmark. Mixed by Jonathan Bremer. Mastered by Brian Mørk Hansen. Produced by Jonathan Bremer. Artwork by Yaqup Oxbjr.

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Halvcirkel Copenhagen, Denmark

Halvcirkel is a progressive string quartet based in Denmark who created attention both at home and internationally with their sometimes gentle, yet expressive sound that draws on new classical music, minimalism and improvisation. Halvcirkel strives to free themselves from rules and ideals in order to achieve greater cohesion and authenticity. ... more

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