Kreutzer Quartet - David Matthews: Complete String Quartets, Vol. 5 (2022) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. String Quartet No. 14, Op. 145: I. Night. Adagio
02. String Quartet No. 14, Op. 145: II. Sunrise. Lento e sostenuto
03. String Quartet No. 14, Op. 145: III. Day. Molto vivace con gioia
04. String Quartet No. 15, Op. 159: I. Allegro
05. String Quartet No. 15, Op. 159: II. Molto adagio
06. String Quartet No. 15, Op. 159: III. Giocoso
07. String Quartet No. 15, Op. 159: IV. Moderato
08. String Quartet No. 13, Op. 136: I. Green. in tranquilla attesa
09. String Quartet No. 13, Op. 136: II. Woollahra Magpies. Poco lento - Vivace
10. String Quartet No. 13, Op. 136: III. Sun in Me. Con luminosità costante
11. String Quartet No. 13, Op. 136: IV. The Song Thrush. Moderato
12. String Quartet No. 13, Op. 136: V. Lux Aeterna. Con il movimento pacifico
13. Sospiri, Op. 70 (Arr. D. Matthews for String Quartet)
14. Minuet in D Major, K. 355 (Arr. D. Matthews for String Quartet)
15. Gigue in G Major, K. 574 (Arr. D. Matthews for String Quartet)
16. Bagatelle in C Major, WoO 56 (Arr. D. Matthews for String Quartet)
17. Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht, H. 145 (Arr. D. Matthews for String Quartet)
18. Dichterliebe, Op. 48: No. 1, Im wunderschönen Monat Mai (Arr. D. Matthews for String Quartet)
19. Canon for Michael Tippett
20. Canon for Michael Berkeley

The American critic Robert Reilly described the music from the first volume 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". Matthews’ three most recent quartets call in a wide range of references. Birdsong – heard in No. 13 and No. 14 – is a standard Matthews topos; and the fugal No. 15 seems to find a middle ground between late Beethoven and folk-music. No. 13 presents the biggest surprise: it introduces four solo voices, siting the work somewhere between Berg’s Lyric Suite and Vaughan Williams’ Serenade to Music. Some touching arrangements and two canons for two Michaels – Tippett and Berkeley – complete the programme.

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