Release Date: 26 October 2008
Label: Naxos - Ex Select Products / Naxos Classics
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 747313056071
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: ALWYN
Description
For British composer William Alwyn CBE the string quartet was the \most perfect of mediums. His 'String Quartet No. 1' of 1953 recalls the sound worlds of Dvor?ík, Jan?ícek and Smetana, while repaying his debt to the Czech tradition with memorably original music.Almost 22 years later, his Second Quartet, 'Spring Waters', was prefaced by lines from Turgenev's novel of the same name: "My careless years, / My precious days, / like the waters of springtime, / Have melted away." The passionate opening of his Third, composed in 1984 and Alwyn's swansong, leads to a conclusion of elegiac serenity."Fresh, enthusiastic and very accomplished.... The Maggini's performance is full of conviction and the recording balances clarity and atmosphere to something like perfection." BBC Music Magazine on 8555282Also available:ALWYN: Piano MusicBAX: String Quartets 1 & 2 BRIDGE: String Quartets 1 & 2""
Tracklisting
Dariia Lytvishko
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; Marin Alsop
Alice Di Piazza; Basel Sinfonietta; NDR Bigband; Titus Engel
Anna Alas i Jove; Miquel Villalba
David Childs; Black Dyke Band; Nicholas Childs
Yaqi Yang; Margarita Parsamyan; Robynne Redmon; Minghao Liu; Frank Ragsdale; Kim Josephson; Kevin S
Vilmos Csikos; Olivier Lechardeur; Manon Lamaison
Tomas Cotik; Martingale Ensemble; Ken Selden
