Being a tremendous virtuose Violinplayer, Bernard van Dieren wrote large Stringquartets not only with nearly constantly high instrumental demands, but even some passages, which as far the musical context shold be kept go in the demands of the playing tempo far beyond what even extraordinary virtous ensembles are able to realise. Meanwhile both stringquartets do have many merits of Music written by an inspired and expiereinced Vioinist, they have been obviously for their high demands completly neglected by the traditional stringquartets until the first recordings realised on klassik-resampled.

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Already his earlyier large Symphonic Ode "The Sea" presented even for the most important Orchstrass in Berlin and Vienna Challenges they were scarcly able to master without audible shortcommings. This is still mutch more the case for Nicodes Symphonic Poem Gloria! with its more than half a million notes, its incredible large Orchestra and nearly constantly very high artistic demands for nearly each single voice and a duration of more than two hours. Those two large Orchestral works still go notably beyond the limits of what even a modern orchestra is used to realise. On Klassik-resampled.de the first recording of this music ever was realised with every detail realised as it is demanded in the score ending up being with "Gloria!" nearly half an hour shorter than the very few documented historic performances have been.

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