
Bits and Bytes - Videri String Quartet (Compact Disc)
Deluxe quality digipak with booklet.Design & Layout by Nate Horsfall, product design by Isa Alcántara.After a long work day, the members of (the) Videri String Quartet discussed how to meaningfully deliver a program with music from video games and the classical repertoire.They began by choosing which classical composers seemed essential. Shostakovich was the first suggestion, more specifically, the 8th String Quartet. Joseph Haydn too, considered the father of the string quartet (somehow at once truth and over-exaggeration). Dvořák. Britten.And as the list of classical masters grew, they started listening to examples side by side. Normally, the final sigh expelled at the close of the first movement of the 8th String Quartet by Dmitri Shostakovich famously barrels without pause into a tumultuous burst of notes in the 2nd movement, audibly unfolding from denial to anger.But this time, it went somewhere new.The joy of Videri stems from their devotion to the seamless merger of the two