Kreutzer Quartet – David Matthews: Complete String Quartets, Vol. 5 (2022) [FLAC 24bit/192kHz]

Kreutzer Quartet – David Matthews: Complete String Quartets, Vol. 5 (2022)
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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’. Matthews’ three most recent quartets call in a wide range of references. Birdsong – heard in Nos. 13 and 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.

Tracklist:

01. Kreutzer Quartet – Matthews: String Quartet No. 14, Op. 145: I. Night. Adagio (03:40)
02. Kreutzer Quartet – Matthews: String Quartet No. 14, Op. 145: II. Sunrise. Lento e sostenuto (05:10)
03. Kreutzer Quartet – Matthews: String Quartet No. 14, Op. 145: III. Day. Molto vivace con gioia (03:48)
04. Kreutzer Quartet – Matthews: String Quartet No. 15, Op. 159: I. Allegro (01:52)
05. Kreutzer Quartet – Matthews: String Quartet No. 15, Op. 159: II. Molto adagio (06:05)
06. Kreutzer Quartet – Matthews: String Quartet No. 15, Op. 159: III. Giocoso (03:02)
07. Kreutzer Quartet – Matthews: String Quartet No. 15, Op. 159: IV. Moderato (03:47)
08. Kreutzer Quartet – Matthews: String Quartet No. 13, Op. 136: I. Green. In tranquilla attesa (04:25)
09. Kreutzer Quartet – Matthews: String Quartet No. 13, Op. 136: II. Woollahra Magpies. Poco lento – Vivace (03:57)
10. Kreutzer Quartet – Matthews: String Quartet No. 13, Op. 136: III. Sun in Me. Con luminosità costante (04:32)
11. Kreutzer Quartet – Matthews: String Quartet No. 13, Op. 136: IV. The Song Thrush. Moderato (01:55)
12. Kreutzer Quartet – Matthews: String Quartet No. 13, Op. 136: V. Lux Aeterna. Con il movimento pacifico (03:25)
13. Kreutzer Quartet – Elgar: Sospiri, Op. 70 (Arr. D. Matthews for String Quartet) (04:56)
14. Kreutzer Quartet – Elgar: Minuet in D Major, K. 355 (Arr. D. Matthews for String Quartet) (02:33)
15. Kreutzer Quartet – Elgar: Gigue in G Major, K. 574 (Arr. D. Matthews for String Quartet) (02:19)
16. Kreutzer Quartet – Elgar: Bagatelle in C Major, WoO 56 (Arr. D. Matthews for String Quartet) (02:16)
17. Kreutzer Quartet – Elgar: Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht, H. 145 (Arr. D. Matthews for String Quartet) (01:50)
18. Kreutzer Quartet – Elgar: Dichterliebe, Op. 48: No. 1, Im wunderschönen Monat Mai (Arr. D. Matthews for String Quartet) (01:37)
19. Kreutzer Quartet – Matthews: Canon for Michael Tippett (00:54)
20. Kreutzer Quartet – Matthews: Canon for Michael Berkeley (00:56)

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