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Toccata

Max: String Quartets

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Details

Composer
Noah Max
Artist
Tippett Quartet, Sir Michael Morpurgo
Format
CD
Label
Toccata
Released
Mar 07, 2025
Catalog #
TOCC0749
UPC
5060113447494

About

It is remarkable not only that the London-based Noah Max (b. 1998) should have composed four string quartets by his mid-twenties; their stylistic range is also surprisingly wide. No. 1, which sets Jean Giono's story 'The Man who Planted Trees', narrated here by Sir Michael Morpurgo, has distant roots in English pastoralism, but the refracted lines, furtive colours and ecstatic textures of Nos. 2 and 3 are much closer to European modernism, with echoes of Kurtag and Ligeti. No. 4 is a wild ride, it's manic, swirling rhythms interrupted by passages of whispered intimacy that eventually draw it into silence.

Tracklist 8 tracks

  1. 1 I. Andante desolato 10:10
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Andante desolato
    Duration
    10:10
    Composer
    Noah Max
    Performer
    Michael Morpurgo
    Ensemble
    Tippett Quartet
  2. 2 II. Maestoso: expansive 08:04
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Maestoso: expansive
    Duration
    08:04
    Composer
    Noah Max
    Performer
    Michael Morpurgo
    Ensemble
    Tippett Quartet
  3. 3 III. Vivo 06:12
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Vivo
    Duration
    06:12
    Composer
    Noah Max
    Performer
    Michael Morpurgo
    Ensemble
    Tippett Quartet
  4. 4 String Quartet No. 3, Op. 41 10:44
    Track
    4
    Title
    String Quartet No. 3, Op. 41
    Duration
    10:44
    Composer
    Noah Max
    Ensemble
    Tippett Quartet
  5. 5 String Quartet No. 4, Op. 45 15:37
    Track
    5
    Title
    String Quartet No. 4, Op. 45
    Duration
    15:37
    Composer
    Noah Max
    Ensemble
    Tippett Quartet
  6. 6 I. Andante glaciale 06:02
    Track
    6
    Title
    I. Andante glaciale
    Duration
    06:02
    Composer
    Noah Max
    Ensemble
    Tippett Quartet
  7. 7 II. Intensamente con ira 08:11
    Track
    7
    Title
    II. Intensamente con ira
    Duration
    08:11
    Composer
    Noah Max
    Ensemble
    Tippett Quartet
  8. 8 III. Unearthly mesmeric 03:43
    Track
    8
    Title
    III. Unearthly mesmeric
    Duration
    03:43
    Composer
    Noah Max
    Ensemble
    Tippett Quartet