5060113447012

Robert Simpson: Chamber Music, Vol. 1

The Tippett Quartet; Eva-Maria Hartmann; Cornelis Witthoefft; Emma Johnson; Raphael Wallfisch; John

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Format: CD

Cat No: TOCC0701

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Release Date:  17 January 2025

Label:  Toccata Classics - Cd / Toccata Classics

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  5060113447012

Genres:  Classical  Chamber Music  

Composer/Series:  Robert Simpson

  • Description

    Most of the chamber music of Robert Simpson (1921-97) was recorded by Hyperion in the 1980s and '90s, but there remained some gaps in that discography. The Robert Simpson Society has sponsored two albums to plug them, this first one including an early string quartet and two songs that came to light only after the composer's death. In later life Simpson used to say that poems good enough to set didn't need music - but these two youthful essays prove that he was already a master. Simpson wrote the D major string quartet as a student at Durham; an examiner described it as 'fearless'. The two mature works - vintage Simpson - bring his sense of symphonic momentum into the clarinet repertoire.