Kreutzer Quartet - David Matthews: Complete String Quartets, Vol. 6 (2024) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. String Quartet No. 8, Op. 75: I. Leggiero con moto
02. String Quartet No. 8, Op. 75: II. Vivo
03. String Quartet No. 8, Op. 75: III. Adagio sostenuto
04. String Quartet No. 16, Op. 161: Andante con moto
05. String Quartet No. 16, Op. 161: Molto vivace
06. String Quartet No. 16, Op. 161: Lento con molto espressione
07. String Quartet No. 17, Op. 164: I. Flamboyant
08. String Quartet No. 17, Op. 164: II. Vivace
09. String Quartet No. 17, Op. 164: III. Adagio
10. String Quartet No. 17, Op. 164: IV. Andante con moto - Allegro con brio
11. Prelude & Fugue in B Minor, BWV 869: I. Prelude (Arr. for String Quartet by David Matthews)
12. Prelude & Fugue in B Minor, BWV 869: II. Fugue (Arr. for String Quartet by David Matthews)

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’. The three works in this sixth volume of Matthews’ string quartets cover a quarter of a century but share the same basic features, not least a mastery of counterpoint, an impassioned lyricism, a sublimated hint of folksong and occasionally a sly sense of humour, all deployed to touch something essential in the listener. Matthews begins his booklet note with this release by saluting ‘my now nearly 30-year relationship with the Kreutzer Quartet, which has been as invaluable to me as Shostakovich’s with the Beethoven Quartet, or Beethoven’s with the Schuppanzigh Quartet’.

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