Bowen: String Quartets No 2 & 3 / Archaeus Quartet
Described by Saint-Saëns as "the most remarkable of the young British composers," York Bowen was widely known as a pianist and as a composer, his fame reaching its zenith in the years immediately preceding the First World War. The writer and composer Thomas Dunhill described Bowen’s chamber music as "an essentially healthy and breezy phase in modern art." This is especially true of the 1922 Carnegie Trust Award-winning Second Quartet, and while both quartets are based on clear-cut classical models the Third is more elusive and intimate in feeling, revealing the composer’s rarely displayed private side. The atmospheric Phantasy-Quintet provides a rare opportunity to hear the beauty of the bass clarinet in a truly eloquent and expressive soloist capacity.
Product Description:
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Catalog Number: 8571366
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UPC: 747313136674
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Label: Naxos
Composer: York Bowen
Orchestra/Ensemble: Archaeus Quartet
Performer: Timothy Lines
Works:
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String Quartet No. 2 in D minor, Op. 41
Composer: York Bowen
Ensemble: Archaeus Quartet
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String Quartet No. 3 in G major, Op. 46b
Composer: York Bowen
Ensemble: Archaeus Quartet
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Phantasy-Quintet, for bass clarinet & string quartet, Op. 93
Composer: York Bowen
Ensemble: Archaeus Quartet
Performer: Timothy Lines