Kreutzer Quartet - Matthews: Complete String Quartets, Vol. 4 (2016)

Artist: Kreutzer Quartet
Title: Matthews: Complete String Quartets, Vol. 4
Year Of Release: 2016
Label: Toccata Classics
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks+booklet)
Total Time: 74:21 min
Total Size: 310 MB
WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist:Title: Matthews: Complete String Quartets, Vol. 4
Year Of Release: 2016
Label: Toccata Classics
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks+booklet)
Total Time: 74:21 min
Total Size: 310 MB
WebSite: Album Preview
1. No. 1 in G Minor
2. No. 2 in C Major
3. No. 3 in D Major
4. No. 4 in A Major
5. No. 5 in C Minor
6. No. 6 in G Major
7. No. 7 in C Major
8. No. 8 in C Major
9. No. 9 in A Minor
10. No. 10 in A Major
11. No. 11 in B-Flat Major
12. Diabelli Variation (Version for String Quartet)
13. I. Etwas lebhaft und mit der innigsten Empfindung
14. II. Lebhaft. Marschmäßig
15. III. Langsam und sehnsuchtsvoll
16. IV. Geschwind, doch nicht zu sehr und mit Entschlossenheit
17. II. Adagio con molto espressione (Arr. D. Matthews for String Quartet)
18. Theme. Allegretto cantabile
19. Var. 1, L'istesso tempo
20. Var. 2, Poco più moderato
21. Var. 3, Presto
22. Var. 4, Allegro strepitoso
23. Var. 5, Tempo di tango feroce
24. Var. 6, Con moto languido
25. Var. 7, Misterioso
26. Var. 8, Tempo di mazurka
27. Var. 9, Scorrevole
28. Var. 10, Sostenuto
29. Var. 11, Quieto
30. Var. 12, Cavatina. Adagio
31. Var. 13a, Fuga. Molto vivace
32. Var. 13b, Andante tranquillo
33. Var. 13c, Tempo primo
The American critic Robert Reilly described the music on Volume One of this cycle of the complete string quartets of David Matthews (b. 1943) as ‘some of the most concentrated, penetrating writing for this medium in the past 30 years or more. It is musical thinking of the highest order and quartet writing in the great tradition of Beethoven, Bartók, Britten, and Tippett’. This fourth CD in the series presents Matthews’ String Quartet No. 11, a set of variations on the eighth of Beethoven’s Op. 119 Bagatelles, as well as his own contribution to the ‘Diabelli’ Variations and his complete Beethoven transcriptions for string quartet.