Credits:

Virtus Quartet

Description:

This is an album by the Virtus Quartet, a string quartet of talented musicians who have experience as composers for major orchestras. The album features the first recording of a serious work by the charismatic composer Yoshihisa Hirano, who has composed music for the animated films "HUNTER x HUNTER" and "DEATH NOTE," as well as Japanese Folk Song Suite No. 3 (first recording) by string quartet specialist Hajime Yukimatsu and Toru Takemitsu's "A Way Alone. This is a sharp and sharp work that conveys the present state of the Japanese string quartet world. (C)RS