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Matthews / Lea / Trandafilovski- Complete String Quartets 5

SKU: 5060113445544
¥147.00
the album cover for Matthews / Lea / Trandafilovski - Complete String Quartets 5
the album cover for Matthews / Lea / Trandafilovski - Complete String Quartets 5

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 program.

Tracklist:

  1. String Quartet No. 14, Op. 145: I. Night. Adagio
  2. String Quartet No. 14, Op. 145: II. Sunrise. Lento E Sostenuto
  3. String Quartet No. 14, Op. 145: III. Day. Molto Vivace Con Gioia
  4. String Quartet No. 15, Op. 159: I. Allegro
  5. String Quartet No. 15, Op. 159: II. Molto Adagio
  6. String Quartet No. 15, Op. 159: III. Giocoso
  7. String Quartet No. 15, Op. 159: IV. Moderato
  8. String Quartet No. 13, Op. 136: I. Green. In Tranquilla Attesa
  9. String Quartet No. 13, Op. 136: II. Woollahra Magpies. Poco Lento - Vivace
  10. String Quartet No. 13, Op. 136: III. Sun In Me. Con Luminosità Costante
  11. String Quartet No. 13, Op. 136: IV. The Song Thrush. Moderato
  12. String Quartet No. 13, Op. 136: V. Lux Aeterna. Con Il Movimento Pacifico
  13. Sospiri, Op. 70 (Arr. D. Matthews For String Quartet)
  14. Minuet In D Major, K. 355 (Arr. D. Matthews For String Quartet)
  15. Gigue In G Major, K. 574 (Arr. D. Matthews For String Quartet)
  16. Bagatelle In C Major, Woo 56 (Arr. D. Matthews For String Quartet)
  17. Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht, H. 145 (Arr. D. Matthews For String Quartet)
  18. Dichterliebe, Op. 48: No. 1, Im Wunderschönen Monat Mai (Arr. D. Matthews For String Quartet)
  19. Canon For Michael Tippett
  20. Canon For Michael Berkeley

UPC > 5060113445544

Format > New CD

Label > Toccata

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Matthews / Lea / Trandafilovski- Complete String Quartets 5

SKU: 5060113445544
¥147.00

Release Date: 09.02.2022

 
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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 program.

Tracklist:

  1. String Quartet No. 14, Op. 145: I. Night. Adagio
  2. String Quartet No. 14, Op. 145: II. Sunrise. Lento E Sostenuto
  3. String Quartet No. 14, Op. 145: III. Day. Molto Vivace Con Gioia
  4. String Quartet No. 15, Op. 159: I. Allegro
  5. String Quartet No. 15, Op. 159: II. Molto Adagio
  6. String Quartet No. 15, Op. 159: III. Giocoso
  7. String Quartet No. 15, Op. 159: IV. Moderato
  8. String Quartet No. 13, Op. 136: I. Green. In Tranquilla Attesa
  9. String Quartet No. 13, Op. 136: II. Woollahra Magpies. Poco Lento - Vivace
  10. String Quartet No. 13, Op. 136: III. Sun In Me. Con Luminosità Costante
  11. String Quartet No. 13, Op. 136: IV. The Song Thrush. Moderato
  12. String Quartet No. 13, Op. 136: V. Lux Aeterna. Con Il Movimento Pacifico
  13. Sospiri, Op. 70 (Arr. D. Matthews For String Quartet)
  14. Minuet In D Major, K. 355 (Arr. D. Matthews For String Quartet)
  15. Gigue In G Major, K. 574 (Arr. D. Matthews For String Quartet)
  16. Bagatelle In C Major, Woo 56 (Arr. D. Matthews For String Quartet)
  17. Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht, H. 145 (Arr. D. Matthews For String Quartet)
  18. Dichterliebe, Op. 48: No. 1, Im Wunderschönen Monat Mai (Arr. D. Matthews For String Quartet)
  19. Canon For Michael Tippett
  20. Canon For Michael Berkeley

UPC > 5060113445544

Format > New CD

Label > Toccata

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Follow us on Instagram.