Simpson: Chamber Music, Vol. 1

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Label
Toccata
Release Date
January 17, 2025
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Robert Simpson, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, A. E. Housman
    • PERFORMER
      The Tippett Quartet, John Mills, Jeremy Isaac, Lydia Lowndes Northcott, Bozidar Vukotic, Eva-Maria H
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      January 17, 2025
    • UPC
      5060113447012
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      TOCC0701
    • LABEL
      Toccata
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Chamber Music & Recitals
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Allegro moderato

      Composer: Robert Simpson

      Ensemble: Tippett Quartet

    2. II. Adagio non troppo

      Composer: Robert Simpson

      Ensemble: Tippett Quartet

    3. III. Allegretto grazioso

      Composer: Robert Simpson

      Ensemble: Tippett Quartet

    4. IV. Presto

      Composer: Robert Simpson

      Ensemble: Tippett Quartet

    5. Trocknet nicht, Träne

      Composer: Robert Simpson

      Performer: Eva-Maria Hartmann, Cornelis Witthoefft

    6. The Cherry Tree

      Composer: Robert Simpson

      Performer: Eva-Maria Hartmann, Cornelis Witthoefft

    7. I. Lento molto - Allegro non troppo

      Composer: Robert Simpson

      Performer: Emma Johnson, Raphael Wallfisch, John Lenehan

    8. II. Quartet Note = c. 72

      Composer: Robert Simpson

      Performer: Emma Johnson, Raphael Wallfisch, John Lenehan

    9. II. Allegro molto e furioso

      Composer: Robert Simpson

      Performer: Emma Johnson, Raphael Wallfisch, John Lenehan

    10. I. Adagio tranquillo

      Composer: Robert Simpson

      Performer: Peter Cigleris, Derek Hannigan, Will Duerden, Levi Andreassen, Daniil Margulis

    11. II. Allegro

      Composer: Robert Simpson

      Performer: Peter Cigleris, Derek Hannigan, Will Duerden, Levi Andreassen, Daniil Margulis

    12. III. Adavio

      Composer: Robert Simpson

      Performer: Peter Cigleris, Derek Hannigan, Will Duerden, Levi Andreassen, Daniil Margulis


Most of the chamber music of Robert Simpson (1921-97) was recorded by Hyperion in the 1980s and '90s, but there remained some gaps in that discography. The Robert Simpson Society has sponsored two albums to plug them, this first one including an early string quartet and two songs that came to light only after the composer's death. In later life Simpson used to say that poems good enough to set to music didn't need it - but these two youthful essays prove that he was already a master. Simpson wrote the D major string quartet as a student at Durham; an examiner described it as 'fearless'. The two mature works - vintage Simpson - bring his sense of symphonic momentum into the clarinet repertoire.