Ramsay: String Quartets Nos. 1-4

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Metier
Release Date
February 1, 2012
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      RAMSAY, JOHN
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Fitzwilliam String Quartet
    • PERFORMER
      FITZWILLIAM STRING QUARTET
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      February 01, 2012
    • UPC
      809730852824
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      MSV28528
    • LABEL
      Metier
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Chamber Music & Recitals
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Allegro

      Composer: John Ramsay

      Ensemble: Fitzwilliam String Quartet

    2. II. Molto moderato

      Composer: John Ramsay

      Ensemble: Fitzwilliam String Quartet

    3. III. Scherzo

      Composer: John Ramsay

      Ensemble: Fitzwilliam String Quartet

    4. IV. Lento - Rondo vivace

      Composer: John Ramsay

      Ensemble: Fitzwilliam String Quartet

    5. I. Moderato

      Composer: John Ramsay

      Ensemble: Fitzwilliam String Quartet

    6. II. Adagio

      Composer: John Ramsay

      Ensemble: Fitzwilliam String Quartet

    7. III. Adagio molto - Funeral March

      Composer: John Ramsay

      Ensemble: Fitzwilliam String Quartet

    8. IV. Allegro, flamenco - Adagio molto

      Composer: John Ramsay

      Ensemble: Fitzwilliam String Quartet

    9. I. Adagio - Allegro con spirito

      Composer: John Ramsay

      Ensemble: Fitzwilliam String Quartet

    10. II. Adagio

      Composer: John Ramsay

      Ensemble: Fitzwilliam String Quartet

    11. III. Scherzi

      Composer: John Ramsay

      Ensemble: Fitzwilliam String Quartet

    12. IV. Andante

      Composer: John Ramsay

      Ensemble: Fitzwilliam String Quartet

    13. V. Allegro moderato

      Composer: John Ramsay

      Ensemble: Fitzwilliam String Quartet

    14. String Quartet No. 4, "Charles Darwin"

      Composer: John Ramsay

      Ensemble: Fitzwilliam String Quartet


John Ramsay is a professor of geology by profession but also a very serious composer, of both chamber and orchestral works. His style is chiefly tonal though he does utilise serial techniques on occasion. The four string quartets are perfect examples of the best of 'post-modernist' music, employing no artificial boundaries, but being pure self expression using the most appropriate musical forms. They are to some degree programmatic and thus Romantic in idiom too and thoroughly deserve a place in the chamber music repertoire.