Composer: David Matthews
Performer: Kreutzer Quartet
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0059
Release: 2012
Size: 144 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
String Quartet No. 5, Op. 36
01. I. Lento, cantando –
02. II. Vivace, energico –
03. III. Largo sostenuto
String Quartet No. 12, Op. 114
04. I. Prelude and Fugue
05. II. Tango
06. Cadenza I –
07. III. Menuetto scherzando –
08. Cadenza II –
09. IV. Serenade –
10. Cadenza III –
11. V. Canto mesto
12. VI. Menuetto grazioso –
13. VII. Finale
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).