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Jack Quartet
(Wergo)
The Italian composer asks a lot of her musicians, with conventional playing augmented by electronics and found objects, but it never sounds contrived

‘String quartet” seems a rather reductive way of describing any of the four utterly compelling works by Clara Iannotta that the Jack Quartet play here. For as well as demanding that the string players employ every conventional technique, the Italian composer extends their sound world farther, both with electronics and with “found objects” applied to the strings and bodies of the instruments.