Album details

Artist Terje Rypdal & Borealis Ensemble
Album Q.E.D.
Year 1993
Album DR 13
Min. track DR 11
Max. track DR 16
Track DR
12 14 11 12 14 16
Codec Other lossless codec
Source Unknown
Label ECM
Label code LC 2516
Catalog number ECM 1474
Bar code
Country Germany
Comment foobar2000 1.1.16 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1 log date: 2012-11-12 10:25:29 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Analyzed: Terje Rypdal & Borealis Ensemble / Q.E.D. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DR Peak RMS Duration Track -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DR12 -0.84 dB -18.03 dB 5:02 01-Opus 52 - 1st Movement DR14 -0.20 dB -19.98 dB 2:26 02-Opus 52 - 2nd Movement DR11 -0.32 dB -16.95 dB 5:00 03-Opus 52 - 3rd Movement DR12 -0.37 dB -16.75 dB 4:57 04-Opus 52 - 4th Movement DR14 -0.20 dB -18.53 dB 18:30 05-Opus 52 - 5th Movement DR16 -0.52 dB -22.23 dB 16:48 06-Opus 55 - Largo -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Number of tracks: 6 Official DR value: DR13 Samplerate: 44100 Hz Channels: 2 Bits per sample: 16 Bitrate: 554 kbps Codec: Monkey's Audio ================================================================================ 1 Quod Erat Demonstrandum: Opus 52: 1st Movement Rypdal 5:02 2 Quod Erat Demonstrandum: Opus 52: 2nd Movement Rypdal 2:25 3 Quod Erat Demonstrandum: Opus 52: 3rd Movement Rypdal 5:00 4 Quod Erat Demonstrandum: Opus 52: 4th Movement Rypdal 4:57 5 Quod Erat Demonstrandum: Opus 52: 5th Movement Rypdal 18:29 6 Largo: Opus 55: Largo Rypdal 16:47 Terje Rypdal electric guitar Borialis Ensemble Conductor Cristian Eggen Recorded August and December 1991 at Rainbow Studio, Oslo total time 0:52:43 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Review by Paul Collins Q.E.D. (or opus 54, for Rypdal archivists) is a composition in five movements for electric guitar, string ensemble, and woodwinds, and in it Rypdal often alternates sections of great dissonance with near silence, or lonely sustained notes by just one or two instruments. It can have the sweeping starkness of a tracking shot over a fjord, but there's a certain coldness to it as well, and even confirmed fans of his jazz work may take a while to warm up to it. The second movement, with its needling backwards guitar over the string ensemble, is at times reminiscent of Red-era Frippertronics; the most dramatic and broodingly gorgeous playing arises in the fourth movement, though, with Rypdal's aching solos over ominous near-subsonic rumbling.
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