Opium String Quartet

Opium String Quartet (OSQ) was formed in 2004.
Three months later the Quartet made a critically acclaimed debut at the Jerzy Waldorf Festival in Radziejowice. The OSQ is now firmly established on the Polish chamber music scene and regularly performs in the most prestigious venues in Poland and music festivals such as the Composer Portaits, Warsaw Musical Gatherings, Chopiniana Festival, Fabryka Trzciny, … and Lutoslawski, Chain IX – Lutoslawski Festival, Warsaw Jewish Festival „Singer's Warsaw”, Festival of Stars „Forte-Piano” in Torun.

Back to Melody

You’ll get no argument from me regarding the disc’s title. This young quartet is devoted to these works, and presents them with real intensity and, indeed, joy in this, its first disc.

I daresay that those who have not followed the course of Polish music since the mid to late 1970s - when some composers began a ‘return to roots’ policy, and embraced highlands’ music and folkloric inspiration – will be unfamiliar with the three composers recorded in this disc. If that’s the case, then I think you’ll be in for a pleasant surprise.

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