Toccata
Matthews: Complete String Quartets, Vol. 6 / Kreutzer Quartet
$20.99
Details
- Composer
- David Matthews
- Artist
- Kreutzer Quartet
- Format
- CD
- Label
- Toccata
- Released
- Jul 05, 2024
- Catalog #
- TOCC0732
- UPC
- 5060113447326
About
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'. The three works in this sixth volume of Matthews' complete string quartets cover a quarter of a century but share the same basic features, not least a mastery of counterpoint, an impassioned lyricism, a sublimated hint of folksong and occasionally a sly sense of humour, all deployed to touch something essential in the listener. Matthews begins his booklet note with this release by saluting 'my now nearly 30-year relationship with the Kreutzer Quartet, which has been as invaluable to me as Shostakovich's with the Beethoven Quartet, or Beethoven's with the Schuppanzigh Quartet'.
Tracklist 12 tracks
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1 I. Leggiero con moto 07:15
- Track
- 1
- Title
- I. Leggiero con moto
- Duration
- 07:15
- Composer
- David Matthews
- Ensemble
- Kreutzer Quartet
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2 II. Vivo 04:35
- Track
- 2
- Title
- II. Vivo
- Duration
- 04:35
- Composer
- David Matthews
- Ensemble
- Kreutzer Quartet
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3 III. Adagio sostenuto 08:29
- Track
- 3
- Title
- III. Adagio sostenuto
- Duration
- 08:29
- Composer
- David Matthews
- Ensemble
- Kreutzer Quartet
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4 I. Andante con moto 03:40
- Track
- 4
- Title
- I. Andante con moto
- Duration
- 03:40
- Composer
- David Matthews
- Ensemble
- Kreutzer Quartet
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5 II. Molto vivace 02:49
- Track
- 5
- Title
- II. Molto vivace
- Duration
- 02:49
- Composer
- David Matthews
- Ensemble
- Kreutzer Quartet
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6 III. Lento con molto espressione 06:02
- Track
- 6
- Title
- III. Lento con molto espressione
- Duration
- 06:02
- Composer
- David Matthews
- Ensemble
- Kreutzer Quartet
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7 I. Flamboyant 05:05
- Track
- 7
- Title
- I. Flamboyant
- Duration
- 05:05
- Composer
- David Matthews
- Ensemble
- Kreutzer Quartet
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8 II. Vivace 03:41
- Track
- 8
- Title
- II. Vivace
- Duration
- 03:41
- Composer
- David Matthews
- Ensemble
- Kreutzer Quartet
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9 III. Adagio 08:15
- Track
- 9
- Title
- III. Adagio
- Duration
- 08:15
- Composer
- David Matthews
- Ensemble
- Kreutzer Quartet
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10 IV. Andante 04:13
- Track
- 10
- Title
- IV. Andante
- Duration
- 04:13
- Composer
- David Matthews
- Ensemble
- Kreutzer Quartet
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11 Prelude 06:23
- Track
- 11
- Title
- Prelude
- Duration
- 06:23
- Composer
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Ensemble
- Kreutzer Quartet
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12 Fugue 06:12
- Track
- 12
- Title
- Fugue
- Duration
- 06:12
- Composer
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Ensemble
- Kreutzer Quartet