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Ramsay: String Quartets Nos. 1-4

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Details

Composer
RAMSAY, JOHN
Artist
FITZWILLIAM STRING QUARTET
Format
CD
Label
Metier
Released
Feb 01, 2012
Catalog #
MSV28528
UPC
809730852824

About

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.

Tracklist 14 tracks

  1. Disc 1
  2. 1 I. Allegro 05:00
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Allegro
    Duration
    05:00
    Composer
    John Ramsay
    Ensemble
    Fitzwilliam String Quartet
  3. 2 II. Molto moderato 05:53
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Molto moderato
    Duration
    05:53
    Composer
    John Ramsay
    Ensemble
    Fitzwilliam String Quartet
  4. 3 III. Scherzo 05:41
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Scherzo
    Duration
    05:41
    Composer
    John Ramsay
    Ensemble
    Fitzwilliam String Quartet
  5. 4 IV. Lento - Rondo vivace 05:06
    Track
    4
    Title
    IV. Lento - Rondo vivace
    Duration
    05:06
    Composer
    John Ramsay
    Ensemble
    Fitzwilliam String Quartet
  6. 5 I. Moderato 03:22
    Track
    5
    Title
    I. Moderato
    Duration
    03:22
    Composer
    John Ramsay
    Ensemble
    Fitzwilliam String Quartet
  7. 6 II. Adagio 04:35
    Track
    6
    Title
    II. Adagio
    Duration
    04:35
    Composer
    John Ramsay
    Ensemble
    Fitzwilliam String Quartet
  8. 7 III. Adagio molto - Funeral March 02:30
    Track
    7
    Title
    III. Adagio molto - Funeral March
    Duration
    02:30
    Composer
    John Ramsay
    Ensemble
    Fitzwilliam String Quartet
  9. 8 IV. Allegro, flamenco - Adagio molto 06:25
    Track
    8
    Title
    IV. Allegro, flamenco - Adagio molto
    Duration
    06:25
    Composer
    John Ramsay
    Ensemble
    Fitzwilliam String Quartet
  10. Disc 2
  11. 1 I. Adagio - Allegro con spirito 07:25
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Adagio - Allegro con spirito
    Duration
    07:25
    Composer
    John Ramsay
    Ensemble
    Fitzwilliam String Quartet
  12. 2 II. Adagio 06:29
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Adagio
    Duration
    06:29
    Composer
    John Ramsay
    Ensemble
    Fitzwilliam String Quartet
  13. 3 III. Scherzi 06:01
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Scherzi
    Duration
    06:01
    Composer
    John Ramsay
    Ensemble
    Fitzwilliam String Quartet
  14. 4 IV. Andante 03:28
    Track
    4
    Title
    IV. Andante
    Duration
    03:28
    Composer
    John Ramsay
    Ensemble
    Fitzwilliam String Quartet
  15. 5 V. Allegro moderato 03:26
    Track
    5
    Title
    V. Allegro moderato
    Duration
    03:26
    Composer
    John Ramsay
    Ensemble
    Fitzwilliam String Quartet
  16. 6 String Quartet No. 4, "Charles Darwin" 21:41
    Track
    6
    Title
    String Quartet No. 4, "Charles Darwin"
    Duration
    21:41
    Composer
    John Ramsay
    Ensemble
    Fitzwilliam String Quartet