David Matthews: Complete String Quartets Volume 3

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[Quartet No. 1] appears influenced by Schoenberg, Bartók and, in some of its aphoristic yet highly expressive melodic fragments, Janáček. Quartet No. 2 (1974-76) is more 'of its time', the Scherzo's... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2015, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 3rd Nov 2014
Catalogue No: TOCC0060
Label: Toccata Classics
Series: David Matthews' String Quartets
Length: 64 minutes

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Matthews, D: String Quartet No. 1, Op. 4

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I. Adagio -

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II. Molto vivace -

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III. Adagio -

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IV. Poco allegro. Con tenerezza -

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V. L'istesso tempo. Con rubato e molto intenso -

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VI. Allegro

Track length2:24

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Matthews, D: String Quartet No. 2, Op. 16

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I. Sonata. Allegro flessibile

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II. Scherzo. Very Rhythmic and Strict in Tempo

Track length4:18

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III. Elegy. Lento

Track length8:51

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Matthews, D: String Quartet No. 3, Op. 18

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I. Allegro animato -

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II. Andante tranquillo -

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III. Largo e sostenuto

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Matthews, D: Mirror Canon

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Scriabin: Prelude, Op. 74 No. 4

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This is the third volume in the Toccata Classics cycle of the complete string string quartets of David Matthews (b. 1943).

The American critic Robert Reilly described the music on Volume One 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’.

Volume Three contains Matthews’ first three numbered quartets, written between 1969 and 1978 This third CD in the series presents the first three works in the cycle along with an early contrapuntal study and an arrangement of Scriabin.

The Second Quartet, as the composer says, ‘shows the influence of the kind of minimalism in songs by The Velvet Underground, and aims for the energy and dynamism of The Who’.

The Kreutzer Quartet – Peter Sheppard Skærved and Mihailo Trandafilovski, violins; Morgan Goff, viola; Neil Heyde, cello – have worked with David Matthews for many years now; many of his quartets were written with them in mind. The Kreutzer Quartet is also engaged on a project to record the string quartets of Beethoven’s friend and colleague Anton Reicha, also for Toccata Classics.

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March 2015

[Quartet No. 1] appears influenced by Schoenberg, Bartók and, in some of its aphoristic yet highly expressive melodic fragments, Janáček. Quartet No. 2 (1974-76) is more 'of its time', the Scherzo's chugging rhythms inspired by The Who and Velvet Underground...The Kreutzer Quartet give strong advocacy with atmospheric and expressive accounts.

1st December 2014

Throughout this disc the Kreutzer Quartet have all the complexity well under control. What an impressive group of musicians they are. Their discography shows a devotion second to none to the twentieth century British and American quartet repertoire. Clearly this David Matthews cycle is in safe hands. The engineers have done a good job.

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