Composer: Richard Flury
Performer: Colla Parte Quartet
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata Classics
Catalogue: TOCC0712
Release: 2023
Size: 1.02 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
String Quartet No. 1 in D Minor
01. I. Allegro
02. II. Andante
03. III. Scherzo
04. IV. Allegro vivo
String Quartet No. 4
05. I. Allegro
06. II. Andante
07. III. Vivace
08. IV. Allegro molto
The exploration of the music of the Swiss composer Richard Flury (1896–1967) on Toccata Classics now turns to his chamber output, with this first recording of his String Quartets Nos. 1 and 4. Flury was himself a gifted violinist, and these works – written for personal pleasure and for musician friends – were composed with an intimate familiarity with the medium. In the fourteen years between these two quartets, Flury’s musical language consolidated, from the early foray into mild modernism heard in No. 1 into the rich, late-Romantic aesthetic of No. 4.