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Tower: String Quartets Nos. 3-5 & Dumbarton Quintet / Daedalus Quartet, Miami Quartet
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Tower: String Quartets Nos. 3-5 & Dumbarton Quintet / Daedalus Quartet, Miami Quartet

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Details

Composer
TOWER, JOAN
Artist
Mcmillen
Format
CD
Label
Naxos
Released
Apr 08, 2016
Catalog #
8559795
UPC
636943979525

About

Widely regarded as one of America’s pre-eminent living composers, Joan Tower, who is also a pianist, is particularly devoted to chamber music. Organic structures underpin her string quartets; there is ‘heat from within’ and radiance of texture in "Incandescent", her third quartet, virtuosic interplay in No. 4, "Angels", and fluid connections in "White Water", her fifth string quartet. Only the third composer – after Stravinsky and Copland – to be commissioned by the Dumbarton Oaks Foundation, Dumbarton Quintet pursues extremes of moods both romantically consonant and dissonant.

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REVIEW:

Premiere recordings of three quartets and a piano quintet, composed over a 10-year span and performed by two outstanding American quartets. The Fifth Quartet has an aquatic feel and flow, the music leading towards an exquisite, radiant end. The Piano Quintet is a characteristically dynamic and angular score, tempered by the piano's warmth and and an intriguing range of combined sounds.

– Gramophone

Tracklist 4 tracks

  1. 1 String Quartet No. 5, "White Water" 16:59
    Track
    1
    Title
    String Quartet No. 5, "White Water"
    Duration
    16:59
    Composer
    Joan Tower
    Ensemble
    Daedalus Quartet
  2. 2 String Quartet No. 3, "Incandescent" 17:25
    Track
    2
    Title
    String Quartet No. 3, "Incandescent"
    Duration
    17:25
    Composer
    Joan Tower
    Ensemble
    Miami String Quartet
  3. 3 String Quartet No. 4, "Angels" 16:20
    Track
    3
    Title
    String Quartet No. 4, "Angels"
    Duration
    16:20
    Composer
    Joan Tower
    Ensemble
    Miami String Quartet
  4. 4 Dumbarton Quintet 12:56
    Track
    4
    Title
    Dumbarton Quintet
    Duration
    12:56
    Composer
    Joan Tower
    Performer
    Blair McMillen
    Ensemble
    Daedalus Quartet