Complete String Quartets, Volume 1
MATTHEWS, David

Catalogue Number: TOCC0058
EAN: 5060113440587
Release Date: 15 April 2010
Duration: 64:17

Adagio for String Quartet, Op. 56a
String Quartet No. 10, Op. 84
String Quartet No. 4, Op. 27
String Quartet No. 6, Op. 56

Kreutzer Quartet

To date David Matthews (b. 1943) has written seven symphonies and eleven string quartets. ‘I have continued’, he explains, ‘along a path similar to that taken by Tippett and Britten: one rooted in the Viennese Classics – Beethoven above all – and also in Mahler, Sibelius and the early twentieth-century modernists. I have always been a tonal composer, attempting to integrate the musical language of the present with the past, and to explore the rich traditional forms.’ This first volume of his complete string quartets presents works written between 1981 and 2001.

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Track Listing, MP3 Downloads & Streaming Samples

Track No.	Track Title/Details	Duration	Sample	Download Track
	String Quartet No. 4, Op. 27 (1981) David Matthews, composer Kreutzer Quartet (first recording)	30:58
1	I. Poco lento – Andante con moto	4:09
2	II. Molto vivace	5:54
3	III. Adagio sostenuto	7:27
4	IV. Allegro	13:28
5	Adagio for String Quartet, Op. 56a (1990) David Matthews, composer Kreutzer Quartet (first recording)	4:02
	String Quartet No. 6, Op. 56 (1991) David Matthews, composer Kreutzer Quartet (first recording)	16:25
6	I. Allegro moderato e flessibile	4:11
7	II. Adagio	7:50
8	II. Allegro energico	4:24
	String Quartet No. 10, Op. 84 (2000) David Matthews, composer Kreutzer Quartet (first recording)	12:52
9	I. Lontano	5:03
10	II. Vivace	7:49

Artists

David Matthews, composer
[credit: Richard Wakefield]

Kreutzer Quartet, string quartet
[credit: Leif Johansson]