Alwyn: String Quartets Nos. 6-9 / Villiers Quartet

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Label
Lyrita
Release Date
March 6, 2020
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      ALWYN, WILLIAM
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Villiers Quartet
    • PERFORMER
      VILLIERS QUARTET
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      March 06, 2020
    • UPC
      5020926038623
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      SRCD386
    • LABEL
      Lyrita
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Prelude: Allegro

      Composer: William Alwyn

      Ensemble: Villiers Quartet

    2. II. Passacaglia: Moderato

      Composer: William Alwyn

      Ensemble: Villiers Quartet

    3. III. Rondo: Allegro ma non troppo

      Composer: William Alwyn

      Ensemble: Villiers Quartet

    4. IV. Retrospect: Adagio e tranquillo

      Composer: William Alwyn

      Ensemble: Villiers Quartet

    5. I. Moderato

      Composer: William Alwyn

      Ensemble: Villiers Quartet

    6. II. Interlude: Andante con moto -

      Composer: William Alwyn

      Ensemble: Villiers Quartet

    7. III. - Scherzo - Allegro

      Composer: William Alwyn

      Ensemble: Villiers Quartet

    8. IV. Theme, Variations and Finale: Allegretto

      Composer: William Alwyn

      Ensemble: Villiers Quartet

    9. I. Adagio molto e tranquillo - II. Adagio ma non troppo - III. Poco piu mosso

      Composer: William Alwyn

      Ensemble: Villiers Quartet

    10. IV. Andantino (quasi Allegretto) - V. Allegro moderato - VI. Andante con moto

      Composer: William Alwyn

      Ensemble: Villiers Quartet

    11. VII. Allegro

      Composer: William Alwyn

      Ensemble: Villiers Quartet

    12. No. 1. The Little Red Lark: Andantino - No. 2. Air - No. 3. The Maiden Ray

      Composer: William Alwyn

      Ensemble: Villiers Quartet

    13. No. 4. The Ewe with the Crooked Horn - No. 5. The Gentle Maiden - No. 6. Who'll buy my Besoms?

      Composer: William Alwyn

      Ensemble: Villiers Quartet

    14. No. 7. Jig

      Composer: William Alwyn

      Ensemble: Villiers Quartet

    15. String Quartet No. 9

      Composer: William Alwyn

      Ensemble: Villiers Quartet


William Alwyn’s musical style is in the main of a romantic nature firmly grounded in tonality, notwithstanding some forays into modernity, calling on dissonance and freedom of form when he felt the need. This approach can be keenly felt in the works included on this album, all of which were completed when he was aged between eighteen and twenty-five. The medium of the string quartet held a long and lasting fascination for Alwyn, which began during the earliest years of his composing career. He was to compose a total of sixteen string quartets between the years 1920 and 1984. Alwyn considered that the string quartet was the ‘most intimate of mediums’ and reveled in the challenge to provide interesting material in which to balance the four instruments. The sixteen string quartets that he was to compose can be divided into two groups; the first thirteen quartets were composed between 1920 and 1936, and the last three quartets were composed between 1953 and 1984.