Eddie Mora - english

Throughout history, the quartet for string instruments, a typical chamber music genre, traces its stylistic characteristics through the exploration of intimacy and a warm expression of the subtle. This conceptual methodology may be found, without restrictions, within these particular works by Costa Rican composer Eddie Mora (1965). Collected in this album, the Cuarteto No. 1, entitled Portrait V, which dates from 2005, and the Cuarteto No. 2 and Cuarteto No. 3 from 2008 and 2009, respectively. Upon first hearing of these three works, one can draw the creative evolution throughout the composer's artistic path. If the first quartet shows a sustained handling of living timbral colors, typical of the works from the composer´s first period, in the second and third quartet there appears a musical language driven towards dramatism, which takes the composer to a proposal of discourse and form, as reflected in the treatment of musical dramatism, as well as the development and transformation of sound material. Precisely in relation to this, the Cuarteto No. 3, written a hundred and fifty years since the execution of the Costa Rican national hero, Juan Rafael Mora Porras (1814-1860), the composer marks the first measure in a series of works in which artistic literature and musical structures and ideas are merged..

Ekaterina Chatski
Investigator, University of Costa Rica