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COMPOSERRAWSTHORNE
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ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLEMaggini Quartet
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PERFORMERMAGGINI QUARTET
Rawsthorne: String Quartets, Etc / Maggini Quartet
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$19.99
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- Naxos
- October 31, 2006
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RELEASE DATEOctober 31, 2006
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UPC747313013678
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CATALOG NUMBER8570136
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LABELNaxos
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NUMBER OF DISCS1
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GENRE
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Theme: Allegro
Composer: Alan Rawsthorne
Performer: Laurence Jackson, David Angel
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Variation 1: Capriccietto
Composer: Alan Rawsthorne
Performer: Laurence Jackson, David Angel
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Variation 2: Siciliano
Composer: Alan Rawsthorne
Performer: Laurence Jackson, David Angel
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Variation 3: Cancrizzante
Composer: Alan Rawsthorne
Performer: Laurence Jackson, David Angel
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Variation 4: Rhapsodia
Composer: Alan Rawsthorne
Performer: Laurence Jackson, David Angel
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Variation 5: Notturno
Composer: Alan Rawsthorne
Performer: Laurence Jackson, David Angel
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Variation 6: Scherzetto
Composer: Alan Rawsthorne
Performer: Laurence Jackson, David Angel
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Variation 7: Ostinato
Composer: Alan Rawsthorne
Performer: Laurence Jackson, David Angel
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Variation 8: Canone
Composer: Alan Rawsthorne
Performer: Laurence Jackson, David Angel
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Variation 9: Fantasia
Composer: Alan Rawsthorne
Performer: Laurence Jackson, David Angel
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Theme: Tempo giusto, espressivo e poco agitato
Composer: Alan Rawsthorne
Ensemble: Maggini Quartet
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Variation 1: L'istesso tempo
Composer: Alan Rawsthorne
Ensemble: Maggini Quartet
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Variation 2: Andante appassionato
Composer: Alan Rawsthorne
Ensemble: Maggini Quartet
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Variation 3: Allegro
Composer: Alan Rawsthorne
Ensemble: Maggini Quartet
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Variation 4: Adagio, poco misterioso
Composer: Alan Rawsthorne
Ensemble: Maggini Quartet
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Variation 5: Allegro preciso
Composer: Alan Rawsthorne
Ensemble: Maggini Quartet
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Variation 6: Prestissimo
Composer: Alan Rawsthorne
Ensemble: Maggini Quartet
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I. Maestoso e pesante - Allegretto - Allegro agitato
Composer: Alan Rawsthorne
Ensemble: Maggini Quartet
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II. Allegro appassionato sempre molto rubato
Composer: Alan Rawsthorne
Ensemble: Maggini Quartet
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III. Allegretto
Composer: Alan Rawsthorne
Ensemble: Maggini Quartet
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IV. Theme, Three Variations and Coda
Composer: Alan Rawsthorne
Ensemble: Maggini Quartet
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I. Allegro deciso - Allegretto - Allegro deciso -
Composer: Alan Rawsthorne
Ensemble: Maggini Quartet
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II. Alla ciacona: Andante
Composer: Alan Rawsthorne
Ensemble: Maggini Quartet
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III. Molto vivace
Composer: Alan Rawsthorne
Ensemble: Maggini Quartet
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Naxos has been doing Alan Rawsthorne (1905–1971) proud. An English composer who might have become a dentist, and who studied the piano with Egon Petri in Poland and Germany, Rawsthorne’s music is gritty, concentrated, and very communicative in its edge.
The two violinists of the Maggini Quartet give a very assured account of Theme and Variations (1937), spellbinding music of wide range: lyrical, intense, fiery, and mercurial. Rawsthorne’s String Quartet No. 1 (1939) is also cast as a theme and variations; once more this is music that compels, is beautifully worked out, and is compact while spawning much over its 10 minutes.
The other quartets, from 1954 and 1965, are just as concise, in four and three movements, respectively—at least, Naxos supplies three cue points for No. 3—although the composer himself informs us that No. 3 is in “two main sections, each of these being divided into several sub-sections.” Rawsthorne’s introductions, presumably written for the first performances of each work, are helpfully reproduced in Naxos’s booklet. Both works dig deep into emotional states as well as being formally attractive. There’s real heart, here, and genuine craftsmanship, searching and voluble, the musical language extended as each work is reached in terms of the composer’s chronology while retaining a passionate outreach for the listener to climb aboard. If I suggest that admirers of Bartók and Hindemith will be on home ground here, I also want to stress that Rawsthorne is very much his own man, expressing himself deeply through music.
Wonderfully well played by the Maggini Quartet, and rendered with a conviction that suggests Rawsthorne’s music is standard repertoire for these musicians, this is an outstanding release that is further blessed by sound that is tangible and truthful. Please don’t miss what I believe to be really significant pieces.
FANFARE: Colin Anderson
The two violinists of the Maggini Quartet give a very assured account of Theme and Variations (1937), spellbinding music of wide range: lyrical, intense, fiery, and mercurial. Rawsthorne’s String Quartet No. 1 (1939) is also cast as a theme and variations; once more this is music that compels, is beautifully worked out, and is compact while spawning much over its 10 minutes.
The other quartets, from 1954 and 1965, are just as concise, in four and three movements, respectively—at least, Naxos supplies three cue points for No. 3—although the composer himself informs us that No. 3 is in “two main sections, each of these being divided into several sub-sections.” Rawsthorne’s introductions, presumably written for the first performances of each work, are helpfully reproduced in Naxos’s booklet. Both works dig deep into emotional states as well as being formally attractive. There’s real heart, here, and genuine craftsmanship, searching and voluble, the musical language extended as each work is reached in terms of the composer’s chronology while retaining a passionate outreach for the listener to climb aboard. If I suggest that admirers of Bartók and Hindemith will be on home ground here, I also want to stress that Rawsthorne is very much his own man, expressing himself deeply through music.
Wonderfully well played by the Maggini Quartet, and rendered with a conviction that suggests Rawsthorne’s music is standard repertoire for these musicians, this is an outstanding release that is further blessed by sound that is tangible and truthful. Please don’t miss what I believe to be really significant pieces.
FANFARE: Colin Anderson
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