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ID: TRO-LP01402
CDs: 1
Type: LP
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Subcollection: QuartetRecording: 20. and 24. May 1988, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Studio 3 Recording Engineer: Ing. Karl Grobholz, Munich Mastering: Bauer Studios , Ludwigsburg |
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ID: TRO-LP01401
CDs: 1
Type: LP
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Collection:
Chamber Music
Subcollection: QuartetRecording:
1. Nov. 1987, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Studio 3
Recording Engineer: Ing. Karl Grobholz, Munich
Mastering: Bauer Studios , Ludwigsburg
Coproduction with Bayerischer Rundfunk
* World Premiere Recording |
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ID: MSV28507
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: String instrumentsThe three composers featured on this CD are in themselves leading lights of the contemporary music scene in the UK, and their works (of which these are first recordings) very fine examples of the modern string quartet, all extremely accessible.
tracks: John Casken: String Quartet no. 2
Judith Weir: String Quartet
Robert Saxton: Songs, Dances and Ellipses
The Kreutzer Quartet has forged an enviable reputation as one of the Europe’s most dynamic and innovative string quartets. The ‘Independent’ newspaper summed up their playing as ‘Passion, Grace and Steel…’.
They are the dedicatees of numerous works, and over many years forged creative partnerships with composers including Sir Michael Tippett, David Matthews, Michael Finnissy, Judith Weir, and Haflidi Hallgrimsson. They have a particularly strong relationship to a cross-section of leading American composers, having collaborated intensively with the great George Rochberg in the last few years of his life, as long as working closely with figures as Elliott Schwartz, and the prolific symphonist Gloria Coates.
As recording artists they have won critical acclaim for their discs on the Naxos, Metier, and Chandos labels. Their work in collaboration with art galleries has garnered much attention, and large audiences, particularly their annual residency at the Tate Gallery, St Ives. In 2008 they appeared at several Festivals including the Venice Biennale, and the Montpelier Festival. They are ‘Artists in association’ at York University. The performers on this CD are Peter Sheppard Skærved (violin), Gordon MacKay (violin), Bridget Carey (viola), and Neil Heyde (cello).
Of the works presented here there are no other recordings of the Casken and Saxton pieces, and at the recording of these, the composers were present, so it can be assumed they are precisely what the composers actually envisaged when writing the works.
The Kreutzer Quartet includes:
Peter Sheppard Skærved (Violin)
Mihailo Trandafilovski and previously Gordon MacKay (Violin)
Morgan Goff and previously Bridget Carey (Viola)
Neil Heyde (Cello) |
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ID: MSVCD92003
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Piano and ClarinetOne of Metier's first issues, and re-issued by demand, this CD is valuable to lovers of English music because Howells' music is still under-rated and ignored. The very fine musicians help to make this an essential recording.
tracks:
Piano Quartet in A minor, Op. 21 (with Andrew West, piano) Rhapsodic Quintet for Clarinet and String Quartet (with Michael Collins, clarinet) Phantasy String Quartet, Op. 25 |
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ID: MSVCD92005
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Chamber Music
Subcollection: QuartetWilliam Mathias as one of the greatest of British 20th century composers. This pioneering recording of his three magnificent quartets was one of Metier's earliest and most popular releases. Out of print for several years, we are delighted to bring it back into circulation at mid price.
W. Mathias:
String Quartet No. 1, Op. 38
String Quartet No. 2, Op. 84
String Quartet No. 3, Op. 97
Medea Quartet |
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ID: MSVCD92104
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: CelloDavid Gorton is a very highly respected British composer whose music is firmly modernist - very difficult to play, but which is also very approachable and accessible. Here Neil Heyde provides a stunning performance of the Cello Sonata and a second version, given a very different interpretation in a live recital. We have the two tiny but intense Caprices for solo violin, a fine work for Piano Trio and the String Quartet Trajectories, a modern model for that genre. All are first recordings, produced and supervised by the composer.
The music of David Gorton first began to receive attention in 2001 when he was awarded the Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Prize while still a student. The subsequent commission for the London Sinfonietta, Oblique Prayers, outlined a distinctive and unique sound-world described by one commentator as combining “an acute imagination for delicate timbral invention with a prodigious command of the unfolding of this half-hour ritual drama” (The Independent).
Gorton studied composition with Harrison Birtwistle and Simon Bainbridge. His music can be described as technically demanding for the performers, and for the listener it is complex and challenging - one commentator remarked that it is music in a constant state of restless evolution.
As a soloist and chamber musician Neil Heyde has appeared throughout Europe, and in the USA and Australia. Since the mid 90s he has been the cellist of the Kreutzer Quartet and he now heads the postgraduate programmes at the Royal Academy of Music, where his work focuses on the relationships between performance, composition and analysis. He has commissioned and premiered many solo and chamber pieces and is also dedicated to performing and recording neglected areas of the repertoire.
tracks: Sonata for Solo Cello Neil Heyde String Quartet: Trajectories Kreutzer Quartet Melting Forms Roderick Chadwick (piano), Peter Sheppard Skærved (violin), Neil Heyde (cello) Caprices nos 1 and 2 Peter Sheppard Skærved (violin) Sonata for Solo Cello (2nd, live, version) Neil Heyde
The Kreutzer Quartet includes:
Peter Sheppard Skærved (Violin)
Mihailo Trandafilovski and previously Gordon MacKay (Violin)
Morgan Goff and previously Bridget Carey (Viola)
Neil Heyde (Cello) |
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ID: MSVCD92011
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Chamber Music
Subcollection: QuartetPart of Metier's ongoing series of recordings of the music of Michael Finnissy, one of Britain's most accomplished and acclaimed contemporary composers
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Michael Finnissy:
Plain Harmony I Plain Harmony II Plain Harmony III Nobody's Jig Sehnsucht Multiple Forms of Constraint String Quartet
The Kreutzer Quartet includes:
Peter Sheppard Skærved (Violin)
Mihailo Trandafilovski and previously Gordon MacKay (Violin)
Morgan Goff and previously Bridget Carey (Viola)
Neil Heyde (Cello) |
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ID: MSVCD92016
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Chamber Music
Subcollection: QuartetTwo substantial and finely constructed quartets by British composers
tracks:
Nicholas Sackman: String Quartet no. 2 George Nicholson: String Quartet no. 3 |
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ID: MSVCD92026
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: String instrumentsWhile the string quartet is most usually associated with the Germanic traditions, many fine quartets have emanated from a variety of sources in more recent times, and the Catalan area is such. The four quartets recorded here are important becuase they offer a picture of quartet writing outside the main European canon; the four composers are of the generation after the great Roberto Gerhard, who left Spain for Britain in 1939 but whose roots in Catalan music created the cornerstone for this new school of expression.
tracks: Miquel Roger: String Quartet no. 2 (1994) Albert Sarda: String Quartet (1978) Josep Soler: String Quartet no. 1 (1974) String Quartet no. 5 (1995)
The Kreutzer Quartet includes:
Peter Sheppard Skærved (Violin)
Mihailo Trandafilovski and previously Gordon MacKay (Violin)
Morgan Goff and previously Bridget Carey (Viola)
Neil Heyde (Cello) |
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ID: MSVCD92032
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Chamber Music
Subcollection: QuartetThe first recordings of these powerful yet little known quartets, in a highly praised performance by the Kreutzer Quartet - Peter Sheppard Skaerved and Gordon MacKay (violins, Bridget Carey (viola) and Neil Heyde (cello).
tracks:
GERHARD: String Quartet no. 1 String Quartet no. 2
The Kreutzer Quartet includes:
Peter Sheppard Skærved (Violin)
Mihailo Trandafilovski and previously Gordon MacKay (Violin)
Morgan Goff and previously Bridget Carey (Viola)
Neil Heyde (Cello) |
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