Release Date: 05 September 2025
Label: Toccata Classics - Cd / Toccata Classics
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5060113447777
Genres: Classical Chamber Music
Composer/Series: Arnold Cooke
Description
The music of the Yorkshire-born Arnold Cooke (1906-2005) - inventively contrapuntal, lyrical and energetic in turns - does not deserve the neglect it suffered even in its composer's lifetime. This second album of two presenting all five of Cooke's string quartets underlines his reputation for resourceful craftsmanship, presented in a style which sits downstream from Hindemith, with whom he studied in Berlin, and from Bartok. There is also a surprisingly strong dance element in all three works heard here, though tempered, even in their lighter moments, by something of the emotional reticence of Britten's quartets.
Tomasz Kamieniak
The Renaissance Singers; David Allinson
BBC Symphony Orchestra; Paul Mann
Sinfonia Varsovia; Ian Hobson
Peter Sheppard Skaerved
Jenni Lattila; Kirill Kozlovski
Amadeus Chamber Musicians
Solomia Soroka; Arthur Greene; Phillip Silver
Bridge Quartet
Bridge Quartet
Bridge Quartet
