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Bowen: String Quartets No 2 & 3 / Archaeus Quartet
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Bowen: String Quartets No 2 & 3 / Archaeus Quartet

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Composer
BOWEN, YORK
Artist
Lines
Format
CD
Label
Naxos
Released
Aug 12, 2014
Catalog #
8571366
UPC
747313136674

About

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.

Tracklist 7 tracks

  1. 1 I. Allegro assai 10:38
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Allegro assai
    Duration
    10:38
    Composer
    York Bowen
    Ensemble
    Archaeus String Quartet
  2. 2 II. Poco lento 08:21
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Poco lento
    Duration
    08:21
    Composer
    York Bowen
    Ensemble
    Archaeus String Quartet
  3. 3 III. Finale: Presto 09:43
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Finale: Presto
    Duration
    09:43
    Composer
    York Bowen
    Ensemble
    Archaeus String Quartet
  4. 4 I. Allegro moderato e semplice 09:35
    Track
    4
    Title
    I. Allegro moderato e semplice
    Duration
    09:35
    Composer
    York Bowen
    Ensemble
    Archaeus String Quartet
  5. 5 II. Poco lento e espressivo 10:31
    Track
    5
    Title
    II. Poco lento e espressivo
    Duration
    10:31
    Composer
    York Bowen
    Ensemble
    Archaeus String Quartet
  6. 6 III. Finale: Allegro assai con spirito 07:15
    Track
    6
    Title
    III. Finale: Allegro assai con spirito
    Duration
    07:15
    Composer
    York Bowen
    Ensemble
    Archaeus String Quartet
  7. 7 Phantasy-Quintet, Op. 93 14:21
    Track
    7
    Title
    Phantasy-Quintet, Op. 93
    Duration
    14:21
    Composer
    York Bowen
    Performer
    Timothy Lines
    Ensemble
    Archaeus String Quartet