New Zealand String Quartet, Helene Pohl, Douglas Beilman, Gillian Ansell, Rolf Gjelsten - Lilburn: String Quartet in E Minor, Phantasy Quartet & Canzonettas (2015)

Tracklist

01. String Quartet in E Minor: I. Andante
02. String Quartet in E Minor: II. Allegretto
03. String Quartet in E Minor: III. Allegro
04. Duos for 2 Violins: I. Andante con moto
05. Duos for 2 Violins: II. Allegro
06. Duos for 2 Violins: III. Andante
07. Duos for 2 Violins: IV. Allegro
08. Duos for 2 Violins: V. Lento
09. Duos for 2 Violins: VI. Allegramente
10. String Trio: I. Allegro non troppo
11. String Trio: II. Allegretto
12. String Trio: III. Allegro
13. Canzonetta: I. Semplice
14. Canzonetta: II. Andante semplice
15. Canzonetta: III. —
16. Phantasy Quartet

This recording of Douglas Lilburn’s complete string chamber music celebrates the centenary of his birth, and is crowned by a world première recording of the Phantasy Quartet which won the Cobbett Prize at the Royal College of Music in 1939. On his return from studies in London to Christchurch in 1940 Lilburn embarked upon a prolific and varied period of creativity. This included the String Quartet in E minor, notable for its intense yet supple lyric power, the three Canzonettas, quasi-Elizabethan in tone as befits their tie to incidental music he wrote for Ngaio Marsh’s productions of Shakespeare’s plays in Christchurch, and the Schubert-influenced String Trio.

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