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Michael Finnissy - Second Third String Quartets - Kreutzer Quartet

Michael Finnissy - Second Third String Quartets - Kreutzer Quartet
ID: NMCD180
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Kolektion: Chamber MusicSubkolektion: Quartet

Asked to sum up how he would characterize his two String Quartets - written in a neoclassical style and influenced by the sound world of Bruckner and Schoenberg - Michael Finnissy answered, ‘rich and chewy’!
In 2011 Michael Finnissy created a daring new interpretation of Mozart's Requiem. To influence his completion of the parts left missing after the 18th century composer’s death he said "I imagined Mozart in the present day, working to complete the Requiem, looking back across the centuries which have passed since his death. I asked myself what composers, musical genres and historical events would have influenced him since 1791- this helped to shape my work.”
Composer Judith Weir says she regards Finnissy as the most important living British composer.
Despite having no score (the piece is a series of parts, each prefaced by the instruction that it is 'intended that parts should drift slightly apart')
Michael Finnissy's Second Quartet is 'based on a compact Haydn model' - originally intended to be the 'Lark', Op.64, No.5 - and traces of its antecedent can be discerned within it. By contrast, the Third Quartet incorporates actual birdsong, both transcribed and recorded, in the composer's response to the natural world and man's place in it: the instruments gradually fade out, to leave only the sound of birds.
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Jeremy Dale Roberts - Croquis - Kreutzer Quartet

Jeremy Dale Roberts - Croquis - Kreutzer Quartet
ID: NMCD151
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Subkolektion: Quartet

Croquis ('Sketches') - a sequence of characteristic miniatures for string trio commissioned by BBC Radio 3 to be spaced between programmes across an evening’s broadcasting, recorded here by members of the Kreutzer Quartet - is coupled with Tristia, a powerful work for violin and piano performed by Peter Sheppard Skaerved and Aaron Shorr.

Kreutzer Quartet
The Kreutzer Quartet has forged an enviable reputation as one of the Europe's most dynamic and innovative string quartets. They are the dedicatees of numerous works, and over many years have 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 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. They are Artists in Association at Quartet at York University, and at Wiltons Music Hall. Their work in collaboration with art galleries has garnered much attention, and large audiences, particularly their annual residency at the Tate Gallery, St Ives.
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EDWARD COWIE - IN FLIGHT MUSIC - Kreutzer Quartet

EDWARD COWIE - IN FLIGHT MUSIC - Kreutzer Quartet
ID: NMCD222
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Subkolektion: Quartet

Kreutzer Quartet
Peter Sheppard Skærved, Mihailo Trandafilovski, violins
Morgan Goff, viola, Neil Heyde, cello

Edward Cowie describes himself as 'the musical equivalent of a plein air visual artist', with compositions evolving from sketches or paintings done in situ. The natural world is inspiration for much of his music and on this album he focuses on flight; mainly of birds and insects. In String Quartet No. 3 ‘In Flight Music’ he adds contrast with two flying-machine-titled movements Hang-gliders and Vapour Trails.
String Quartet No.5 ‘Birdsong Bagatelles’ features 24 brief movements, which collectively cover all the major and minor keys of the chromatic scale. Each piece is named after a bird (Wren, Blackbird, Magpie ...) but Cowie avoids the Messiaen-style approach and instead focuses on the visual displays of birds and their habitat, rather than bird song.
String Quartet No.4 explores mortality. The quartet plays a continuous, slowly ascending emotional and sensual ‘hill-climb’, which ends with a hymn-like theme.
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Charles Uzor -Quartets/Quintet

Charles Uzor -Quartets/Quintet
ID: NEOS10714
CDs: 1
Type: SACD
Kolektion: World Premiere RecordingSubkolektion: Quartet

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Erhard Grosskopf - String Quartets Nos. 1-3

Erhard Grosskopf - String Quartets Nos. 1-3
ID: NEOS10706
CDs: 1
Type: SACD
Kolektion: World Premiere RecordingSubkolektion: Quartet

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John Cage - Seven - Quartets I-VIII

John Cage - Seven - Quartets I-VIII
ID: NEOS10720
CDs: 1
Type: SACD
Kolektion: New TalentsSubkolektion: Quartet

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Shostakovich - String Quartets Nos. 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 15.

Shostakovich - String Quartets Nos. 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 15.
ID: RRC2029
CDs: 2
Type: CD
Kolektion: The Great ComposersSubkolektion: Quartet

The Shostakovich Quartet
Andre Shishlov, violin
Sergei Pishchugin, violin
Alexander Galkovsky, viola
Alexander Korchagin, cello
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Ethel Smyth, Chamber Music Vol.1 and Vol.2 - Fanny Mendelssohn Quartet

Ethel Smyth, Chamber Music Vol.1 and Vol.2 - Fanny Mendelssohn Quartet
ID: TRO-CD03
CDs: 2
Type: CD
Kolektion: Chamber MusicSubkolektion: Quartet

Recording:
August, November 1990, Studio 3, Bayrischer Rundfunk
Recording engineer, Karl Grobholz
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O. H. Moe, S. Haddad, W. Rihm, J. Estrada - Donaueschinger Musiktage 2006 Vol.1

O. H. Moe, S. Haddad, W. Rihm, J. Estrada - Donaueschinger Musiktage 2006 Vol.1
ID: NEOS10724
CDs: 1
Type: SACD
Kolektion: World Premiere RecordingSubkolektion: Quartet

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Ludwig Thuille - Piano Quintets in E flat Major and G minor The Falk Quartet with Tomer Lev, London Conchord Ensemble

Ludwig Thuille - Piano Quintets in E flat Major and G minor The Falk Quartet with Tomer Lev, London Conchord Ensemble
ID: CHRCD001_2
CDs: 2
Type: CD
Subkolektion: Chamber Ensemble

This double-disc set brought both a record label and a composer new to my ears. Thuille, who lived until 1907, was from the Tyrol and a close friend on and off of Richard Strauss. He was a pupil of Rheinberger and as a pedagogue among his own students were Ernest Bloch and Hermann Abendroth. He was a prolific though rather conservative composer and for a time was known for his operas. However, his small fame now lies mainly with his chamber music, as well as a piano concerto and a symphony. His book on harmony was a standard for many years and constitutes his standing in some musical circles.

All four of these chamber works are absolutely gorgeous, full of lovely melody and an almost ecstatic beauty. Thuille’s influences in the Sextet may recall Brahms or even Wagner at various points. There aren’t many good works for wind quintet and piano, and this one should be heard much more frequently. The French horn is very predominant, as it is in much of Richard Strauss’ music. The piano is also given an important role that sometimes expands to almost piano concerto proportions. The Larghetto second movement of the four is especially lovely, with an autumnal sort of sound that reminds one of Brahms. The Vivace finale is a speedy summing-up of the sextet, with already-heard thematic material going from instrument to instrument, and with a good humor thruout.

In the more conservative Trio one may hear influences of Borodin or Franck. Though it has some passages suffused with sorrow, the prevailing mood - especially by the fourth movement finale - is one of joy and good feeling. The two Piano Quintets were composed 21 years apart, the G minor being the early one, dating from 1880. It has a cyclic design in its three short movements, with a prayer-like central slow movement sounding like Brahms. The 1901 Piano Quintet Op. 20 is regarded as the best-known of all of Thuille’s chamber works. Almost 45 minutes in length, it balances a rather traditional approach with plenty of post-Wagnerian chromaticism. Thruout the four-movement work one hears influences of a Richard Strauss-like waltz feeling. The Adagio second movement begins with a chorale-like passage which may remind listeners of Bruckner, as it builds to a massive architectural central climax. The finale brings together some of the previous themes in a hymn-like setting, similar to many of Thuille’s works of this period.

The performances on both CDs are first rate, as are the sonics. This is one of the most enjoyable chamber music collections I have heard in years.
- John Sunier
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