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Penderecki: Complete Music for String Quartet & String Trio
Tippett Quartet (string quartet)
Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2021, Chamber Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Chamber Music
The ebb and flow of the confessional Quartet No. 3...is navigated with an assurance that speaks to their inside-out assimilation of all six scores. To have such a comprehensive programme vividly...
Penderecki: Complete Music for String Quartet & String Trio
Tippett Quartet (string quartet)
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Awards:
-
BBC Music Magazine, September 2021, Chamber Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Chamber Music
The ebb and flow of the confessional Quartet No. 3...is navigated with an assurance that speaks to their inside-out assimilation of all six scores. To have such a comprehensive programme vividly...
About
Penderecki wrote music for string quartet over a period of 56 years. His String Quartet No. 1 was written in the same year that he achieved international success with Threnody (Naxos 8.554491), and includes a wide range of playing techniques reflective of the avant-garde. String Quartet No. 2 reveals the influence of Ligeti, while No. 3 is a personal, even autobiographical work. In No. 4 there are modal or even folk inflections, in writing that is both limpid and abrasive. The eventful Der unterbrochene Gedanke completes Penderecki’s music for quartet, while the String Trio exemplifies his music’s motoric energy.
Contents and tracklist
- John Mills (violin), Lydia Lowndes-Northcott (viola), Bozidar Vukotic (cello)
Awards and reviews
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BBC Music MagazineSeptember 2021Chamber Choice
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International Classical Music Awards2022Nominated - Chamber Music
September 2021
The ebb and flow of the confessional Quartet No. 3...is navigated with an assurance that speaks to their inside-out assimilation of all six scores. To have such a comprehensive programme vividly recorded and performed with such distinction is a triumph; to have it on a single disc at budget price is an utter steal.
September 2021
This massive stylistic range is negotiated with consummate skill by the Tippett Quartet – no easy task – and the recording by Michael Ponder, made in St John the Evangelist Church in Oxford, is absolutely outstanding, resonant but allowing every detail to be heard.
13th June 2021
These four string quartets encompass Krzysztof Penderecki’s mid-career sea change in style…No matter the challenge, the Tippett Quartet play with conviction.
10th July 2021
The Tippett Quartet’s album, in every respect, is whole and rewarding.
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