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

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

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Composer
ALWYN, WILLIAM
Artist
VILLIERS QUARTET
Format
CD
Label
Lyrita
Released
Mar 06, 2020
Catalog #
SRCD386
UPC
5020926038623

About

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.

Tracklist 15 tracks

  1. 1 I. Prelude: Allegro 02:14
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Prelude: Allegro
    Duration
    02:14
    Composer
    William Alwyn
    Ensemble
    Villiers Quartet
  2. 2 II. Passacaglia: Moderato 04:14
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Passacaglia: Moderato
    Duration
    04:14
    Composer
    William Alwyn
    Ensemble
    Villiers Quartet
  3. 3 III. Rondo: Allegro ma non troppo 04:39
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Rondo: Allegro ma non troppo
    Duration
    04:39
    Composer
    William Alwyn
    Ensemble
    Villiers Quartet
  4. 4 IV. Retrospect: Adagio e tranquillo 09:38
    Track
    4
    Title
    IV. Retrospect: Adagio e tranquillo
    Duration
    09:38
    Composer
    William Alwyn
    Ensemble
    Villiers Quartet
  5. 5 I. Moderato 07:27
    Track
    5
    Title
    I. Moderato
    Duration
    07:27
    Composer
    William Alwyn
    Ensemble
    Villiers Quartet
  6. 6 II. Interlude: Andante con moto - 01:41
    Track
    6
    Title
    II. Interlude: Andante con moto -
    Duration
    01:41
    Composer
    William Alwyn
    Ensemble
    Villiers Quartet
  7. 7 III. - Scherzo - Allegro 02:44
    Track
    7
    Title
    III. - Scherzo - Allegro
    Duration
    02:44
    Composer
    William Alwyn
    Ensemble
    Villiers Quartet
  8. 8 IV. Theme, Variations and Finale: Allegretto 08:10
    Track
    8
    Title
    IV. Theme, Variations and Finale: Allegretto
    Duration
    08:10
    Composer
    William Alwyn
    Ensemble
    Villiers Quartet
  9. 9 I. Adagio molto e tranquillo - II. Adagio ma non troppo - III. Poco piu mosso 03:36
    Track
    9
    Title
    I. Adagio molto e tranquillo - II. Adagio ma non troppo - III. Poco piu mosso
    Duration
    03:36
    Composer
    William Alwyn
    Ensemble
    Villiers Quartet
  10. 10 IV. Andantino (quasi Allegretto) - V. Allegro moderato - VI. Andante con moto 02:56
    Track
    10
    Title
    IV. Andantino (quasi Allegretto) - V. Allegro moderato - VI. Andante con moto
    Duration
    02:56
    Composer
    William Alwyn
    Ensemble
    Villiers Quartet
  11. 11 VII. Allegro 06:10
    Track
    11
    Title
    VII. Allegro
    Duration
    06:10
    Composer
    William Alwyn
    Ensemble
    Villiers Quartet
  12. 12 No. 1. The Little Red Lark: Andantino - No. 2. Air - No. 3. The Maiden Ray 03:03
    Track
    12
    Title
    No. 1. The Little Red Lark: Andantino - No. 2. Air - No. 3. The Maiden Ray
    Duration
    03:03
    Composer
    William Alwyn
    Ensemble
    Villiers Quartet
  13. 13 No. 4. The Ewe with the Crooked Horn - No. 5. The Gentle Maiden - No. 6. Who'll buy my Besoms? 03:34
    Track
    13
    Title
    No. 4. The Ewe with the Crooked Horn - No. 5. The Gentle Maiden - No. 6. Who'll buy my Besoms?
    Duration
    03:34
    Composer
    William Alwyn
    Ensemble
    Villiers Quartet
  14. 14 No. 7. Jig 02:19
    Track
    14
    Title
    No. 7. Jig
    Duration
    02:19
    Composer
    William Alwyn
    Ensemble
    Villiers Quartet
  15. 15 String Quartet No. 9 13:11
    Track
    15
    Title
    String Quartet No. 9
    Duration
    13:11
    Composer
    William Alwyn
    Ensemble
    Villiers Quartet