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David Matthews: Complete String Quartets, Volume Two
Catalogue Number: TOCC0059
String Quartet No. 5, Op. 36
Kreutzer Quartet, string quartet 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, Bartok, Britten, and Tippett’. This second CD in the series presents the Fifth Quartet (1984) and the most recent, Quartet No. 12 (2009–10). Liner Notes (PDF) |
Track Listing, MP3 Downloads and Streaming Samples
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| DOWNLOAD COMPLETE ALBUM | 61:03 | ||||
| 1-3 | String Quartet No. 5, Op. 36 (1984) David Matthews, composer Kreutzer Quartet, string quartet Peter Sheppard Skærved, violin Mihailo Trandafilovski, violin Morgan Goff, viola Neil Heyde, cello (first recording) |
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| 1 | I. Lento, cantando – | 6:28 |
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| 2 | II. Vivace, energico – | 4:06 |
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| 3 | III. Largo sostenuto | 7:19 |
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| 4-13 | String Quartet No. 12, Op. 114 (2009-10) David Matthews, composer Kreutzer Quartet, string quartet Peter Sheppard Skærved, violin Mihailo Trandafilovski, violin Morgan Goff, viola Neil Heyde, cello (first recording) |
43:10 | |||
| 4 | I. Prelude and Fugue | 9:51 |
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| 5 | II. Tango | 3:00 |
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| 6 | Cadenza I – | 0:57 |
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| 7 | III. Menuetto Scherzando – | 2:59 |
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| 8 | Cadenza II – | 1:21 |
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| 9 | IV. Serenade – | 3:20 |
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| 10 | Cadenza III – | 0:32 |
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| 11 | V. Canto Mesto | 10:44 |
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| 12 | VI. Menuetto Grazioso – | 1:11 |
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| 13 | VII. Finale | 9:15 |
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Artists
David Matthews, composer
[credit: Richard Wakefield]
Kreutzer Quartet, string quartet
[credit: Leif Johansson]
Peter Sheppard Skærved, violin
[credit: Matt Grum]
Mihailo Trandafilovski, violin
[credit: Matt Grum]
Morgan Goff, viola
[credit: Matt Grum]
Neil Heyde, cello
[credit: Matt Grum]
Reviews
Manifest commitment and burning conviction
[…] the Kreutzer Quartet gives its collective all in accounts of manifest commitment and burning conviction. The sound is a touch raw in the Fifth Quartet but with an ideal balance and perspective in the Twelfth, while the composer supplies typically insightful notes. The remainder of this series could not be more keenly awaited.
Richard Whitehouse International Record Review
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