Alwyn: Early String Quartets: String Quartets Nos. 6, 7, 8, 9

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These are conspicuously sensitive performances that respond to every facet of the composer’s writing — MusicWeb International, February 2020

Release Date: 6th Mar 2020
Catalogue No: SRCD386
Label: Lyrita
Length: 75 minutes

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Alwyn: String Quartet No. 7 in A Major

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Villiers Quartet

I. Prelude - Allegro

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II. Passacaglia - Moderato

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III. Rondo - Allegro ma non troppo

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IV. Retrospect - Adagio e tranquillo

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Alwyn: String Quartet No. 6 in E Minor

Work length20:00

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Villiers Quartet

I. Moderato

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II. Interlude - Andante con moto

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III. Scherzo - Allegro

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IV. Theme, Variations & Finale

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Alwyn: String Quartet No. 8 in D Minor

Work length12:40

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I. Adagio molto e tranquillo - II. Adagio ma non troppo - III. Poco più mosso

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IV. Andantino - V. Allegro moderato - VI. Andante con moto

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VII. Allegro

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Alwyn: 7 Irish Tunes for String Quartet

Work length8:56

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Villiers Quartet

No. 1, The Little Red Lark - No. 2, Air - No. 3, The Maiden Ray

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No. 4, The Ewe with the Crooked Horn - No. 5, The Gentle Maiden - No. 6, Who'll Buy My Besoms?

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No. 7, Jig

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Alwyn: String Quartet No. 9

Work length13:11

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Villiers Quartet

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William Alwyn’s musical style is in the main of a romantic nature firmly grounded in tonality, notwithstanding some forays into modernity, calling on dissonance and freedom of from when he felt the need. This approach can be keenly felt in the works included on this disc, all of which were completed when he was aged between eighteen and twenty-five. The medium of the string quartet held a long and lasting fascination for Alwyn, which began during the earliest years of his composing career. He was to compose a total of sixteen string quartets between the years 1920 and 1984. Alwyn considered that the string quartet was the ‘most intimate of mediums’ and revelled in the challenge to provide interesting material in which to balance the four instruments. The sixteen string quartets that he was to compose can be divided into two groups; the first thirteen quartets were composed between 1920 and 1936, and the last three quartets were composed between 1953 and 1984.

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These are conspicuously sensitive performances that respond to every facet of the composer’s writing

Alwyn: Early String Quartets

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