D. Matthews: Complete String Quartets, Vol. 5 / Kreutzer Quartet

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Label
Toccata
Release Date
September 2, 2022
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      David Matthews
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Kreutzer Quartet
    • PERFORMER
      Rebecca Lea, Jess Dandy, James Robinson, Will Dawes, Peter Sheppard Skaerved, Miha
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      September 02, 2022
    • UPC
      5060113445544
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      TOCC0554
    • LABEL
      Toccata
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Night: Adagio -

      Composer: David Matthews

      Ensemble: Kreutzer Quartet

    2. II. Sunrise: Lento e sostenuto -

      Composer: David Matthews

      Ensemble: Kreutzer Quartet

    3. III. Day: Molto vivace con gioia

      Composer: David Matthews

      Ensemble: Kreutzer Quartet

    4. I. Allegro

      Composer: David Matthews

      Ensemble: Kreutzer Quartet

    5. II. Molto adagio

      Composer: David Matthews

      Ensemble: Kreutzer Quartet

    6. III. Giocoso

      Composer: David Matthews

      Ensemble: Kreutzer Quartet

    7. IV. Moderato

      Composer: David Matthews

      Ensemble: Kreutzer Quartet

    8. I. Green: In tranquilla attesa

      Composer: David Matthews

      Ensemble: Kreutzer Quartet

      Performer: Rebecca Lea, Jess Dandy, James Robinson, Will Dawes

    9. II. Woollahra Magpies: Poco lento - Vivace

      Composer: David Matthews

      Ensemble: Kreutzer Quartet

    10. III. Sun in me: Con luminosità costante

      Composer: David Matthews

      Ensemble: Kreutzer Quartet

      Performer: Rebecca Lea, Jess Dandy, James Robinson, Will Dawes

    11. IV. The Song Thrush: Moderato

      Composer: David Matthews

      Ensemble: Kreutzer Quartet

    12. V. Lux Aeterna: Con il movimento pacifico

      Composer: David Matthews

      Ensemble: Kreutzer Quartet

      Performer: Rebecca Lea, Jess Dandy, James Robinson, Will Dawes

    13. Sospiri, Op. 70 (arr. D. Matthews for string quartet)

      Composer: Edward Elgar

      Ensemble: Kreutzer Quartet

    14. Minuet in D Major, K. 355 (arr. D. Matthews for string quartet)

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Kreutzer Quartet

    15. Gigue in G Major, K. 574, "Leipziger Gigue" (arr. D. Matthews for string quartet)

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Kreutzer Quartet

    16. Bagatelle in C Major, WoO 56 (arr. D. Matthews for string quartet)

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Ensemble: Kreutzer Quartet

    17. Stille Nacht (Silent Night) (arr. D. Matthews for string quartet)

      Composer: Franz Xaver Gruber

      Ensemble: Kreutzer Quartet

    18. Dichterliebe in Op. 48: No. 1. Im wunderschonen Monat Mai (arr. D. Matthews for string quartet)

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Ensemble: Kreutzer Quartet

    19. Canon for Michael Tippett

      Composer: David Matthews

      Ensemble: Kreutzer Quartet

    20. Canon for Michael Berkeley

      Composer: David Matthews

      Ensemble: Kreutzer Quartet


The American critic Robert Reilly described the music on Volume One of this cycle of the complete string quartets of David Matthews (b. 1943) as ‘some of the most concentrated, penetrating writing for this medium in the past 30 years or more. It is musical thinking of the highest order and quartet writing in the great tradition of Beethoven, Bartok, Britten, and Tippett’. Matthews’ three most recent quartets call in a wide range of references. Birdsong – heard in Nos. 13 and 14 – is a standard Matthews topos; and the fugal No. 15 seems to find a middle ground between late Beethoven and folk-music. No. 13 presents the biggest surprise: it introduces four solo voices, siting the work somewhere between Berg’s Lyric Suite and Vaughan Williams’ Serenade to Music. Some touching arrangements and two canons for two Michaels – Tippett and Berkeley – complete the program.

REVIEWS:

Perhaps the most important series of quartets written in the last two decades.

The disc is topped off with various miniatures, mainly beautifully idiomatic arrangements for string quartet of pieces which Matthews finds particularly interesting, as he explains in his booklet essay, or written for friends or for special occasions...if you have been collecting David Matthews quartets on this wonderfully enterprising label, then you will wish to snap up this one...One cannot find fault with the four singers or with the Kreutzer Quartet who clearly understand the composer’s requirements and communicate them lucidly and intelligently.There is little or no difference in the acoustic and atmosphere of the recordings made at varying venues. The sound is consistent and always transparent.Gary Higginson