Release Date: 02 September 2022
Label: Toccata Classics - Cd / Toccata Classics
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5060113445544
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: David Matthews
Description
The American critic Robert Reilly described the music on Volume One of this cycle of the complete string quartets of David Matthews (b. 1943) as ‘some of the most concentrated, penetrating writing for this medium in the past 30 years or more. It is musical thinking of the highest order and quartet writing in the great tradition of Beethoven, Bartok, Britten, and Tippett’. Matthews’ three most recent quartets call in a wide range of references. Birdsong – heard in Nos. 13 and 14 – is a standard Matthews topos; and the fugal No. 15 seems to find a middle ground between late Beethoven and folk-music. No. 13 presents the biggest surprise: it introduces four solo voices, siting the work somewhere between Berg’s Lyric Suite and Vaughan Williams’ Serenade to Music. Some touching arrangements and two canons for two Michaels – Tippett and Berkeley – complete the programme.
Various Artists
Tamas Fejes; Balazs Renczes; Christopher Guild
Nora Luse
Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra; Imants Resnis
Duo Praxedis
Choir of Girton College; Cambridge; The Western Wyndes; Felix Elliott; Emily Nott; Gabriel Kennedy;
Chester Concordia Brass Ensemble; Robert Marsh; Philip Rushforth; Richard Lambert
Barcelona Clarinet Players; North Texas Percussion Quartet; Lauren Shuyler; Albert Guinovart; North
Kreutzer Quartet
Kreutzer Quartet
Kreutzer Quartet
Kreutzer Quartet
Kreutzer Quartet
Kreutzer Quartet
Kreutzer Quartet
