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ID: DCD34038
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Contemporary music
Subcollection: Quartet
Track listing
Clapperton:
Great Divorce for string quartet
Dempster:
String Quartet No. 4 “The Cold Dancer”
Sweeney, W:
String Quartet No. 3
Weir:
String Quartet
Edinburgh Quartet |
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ID: DCD34055
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: Quartet
All world premiere recordings
The elder statesman in Scotland's music scene, Robert Crawford has throughout his life lavished intense care over every one of his compositions. The Edinburgh Quartet and pianist Nicholas Ashton are intimately acquainted with Crawford's music and mirror the composer's attention to detail in a long overdue survey of this lovingly-crafted music.
Track listing
1. Sonata Breve (1991)
2. Quintet (2005) Sonata No. 2, Op. 5 (1951)
3. Allegro e caloroso
4. Prestissimo, scherzo
5. Arioso, poco lento
6. Finale, vivace Six Bagatelles, Op. 3 (1947)
7. Allegretto scherzando
8. Dirge, Grave
9. Scherzo, Prestamente
10. Alla marcia
11. Tempo di menuetto, poco lento
12. Allegretto scherzando
13. A Saltire Sonata (1991)
Total playing time [64.44] |
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ID: DCD34069
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: World Premiere Recording
Subcollection: Quartet
World premiere recordings
Delphian's first orchestral recording presents a richly imagined new choral
symphony by Edward Harper, setting it alongside chamber works by this
inventive and limpidly expressive composer.
Harper's music is firmly within the British symphonic tradition, yet ranges wider still in its deeply felt response to human experience, from the 19th-century Dorset of William Barnes to a message of hope and reconciliation from the present-day Middle East.
Edward Harper was born in Taunton, Somerset. He studied music at Christ Church, Oxford, where he gained a first class honours degree, and at the Royal College of Music, London. Subsequently he studied for a further period with Franco Donatoni in Milan. Since 1964 he has been on the staff of the Faculty of Music at Edinburgh University, where he is a Senior Lecturer. He is active as a pianist and conductor and is the Director of the New Music Group of Scotland, an ensemble which has established itself as a significant and highly- valued part of Scottish musical life, as well as giving concerts in London and abroad.
Harper, E:
Three folk settings for string quartet
The Lowlands of Holland
The Ash Grove
Mairi's Wedding
Scena for solo cello
Scena II for flute, cello and piano
Symphony No. 2
Edward Harper (piano), Anna Jones (flute), Louise Paterson (cello) & David Wilson-Johnson (baritone)
Edinburgh Quartet, Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Chorus, Garry Walker |
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ID: DCD34079
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Piano
An influential figure both personally and musically, Thomas Wilson was the leading light in a group of composers whose vision and technical assurance brought an international modernism into 20th-century Scottish music. In the chamber works collected here, moments of extraordinary stillness continually release into fast, propulsive music whose compelling energies are matched by the individual and collective virtuosity of Simon Smith, Allan Neave and the Edinburgh Quartet.
Track listing
Thomas Wilson
1 Cancion (1977) for guitar Listen
2-3 Piano Sonata (1964)
4 Piano Trio (1966)* Listen
5-7 Three Pieces (1961) for guitar
8 -10 String Quartet No 3 (1958)* Listen
11 Incunabula (1983)
Total playing time [77:56]
*premiere recordings |
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ID: DCD34082
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: Quartet
‘Mátyás Seiber’s three string quartets span his career, from the astonishingly assured student essay of the first quartet, composed at the age of just eighteen, to the mature synthesis of his third and final Quartetto Lirico. Seiber’s work was nourished by several of the twentieth century’s most significant stylistic trends, from jazz and serialism to the folk music of his native Hungary. He was also, like many of the mid-century’s most important artists, an émigré and an influential teacher; Hugh Wood’s booklet essay pays tribute to his lasting influence on a generation of British composers.
Track listing
Mátyás Seiber (1905-60)
String Quartet No 1
1 Maestoso - Allegro moderato
2 Lento
3 Rondo: Allegro
String Quartet No 2
4 Allegro marcato - Allegro giusto
5 Intermezzo: Alla “Blues”
6 Presto
Quartetto Lirico (String Quartet No 3)
7 Andante amabile
8 Allegretto scherzando e leggiero
9 Lento espressivo
Total playing time [60:17] |
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ID: DCD34091
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Chamber Music
Crawford, R:
String Quartet No. 1
String Quartet No. 2
String Quartet No. 3
Edinburgh Quartet
AboutListenReviews.The Edinburgh Quartet are Scotland's foremost exponents of new music; they have enjoyed a long relationship with Robert Crawford, who is now surely Scotland's musical elder statesman. His three quartets are given characteristically vivid readings on this recording. They offer a fascinating overview of Crawford's development over the last forty years and the second in particular - with its inspired wit and infectious musicality - deserves far greater renown. |
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