Copland: Chamber Works

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This fine collection of Copland's small output of chamber music offers the first British recording of Movement, a characteristically introspective piece from his student years in Paris which... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Catalogue No: CDDCA1081
Label: ASV
Length: 63 minutes

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Copland: Movement for string quartet

Work length6:31

Vanbrugh Quartet (string quartet), Gregory Ellis (violin), Keith Pascoe (violin), Simon Aspell (viola), Christopher Marwood (cello)
Recorded: 1999-04-15
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk

Copland: Two Pieces for string quartet

Work length8:55

Vanbrugh Quartet (string quartet), Gregory Ellis (violin), Keith Pascoe (violin), Simon Aspell (viola), Christopher Marwood (cello)
Recorded: 1999-04-15
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk

No. 1: Lento molto

Track length5:19

No. 2: Allegro moderato

Track length3:36

Copland: Vitebsk - study on a Jewish theme for violin, cello & piano

Work length11:18

Vanbrugh Quartet (string quartet), Martin Roscoe (piano), Gregory Ellis (violin), Keith Pascoe (violin), Simon Aspell (viola), Christopher Marwood (cello)
Recorded: 1999-04-15
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk

Copland: Piano Quartet

Work length21:43

Vanbrugh Quartet (string quartet), Martin Roscoe (piano), Gregory Ellis (violin), Keith Pascoe (violin), Simon Aspell (viola), Christopher Marwood (cello)
Recorded: 1999-04-15
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk

1. Adagio serio

Track length6:38

2. Allegro giusto

Track length7:50

3. Non troppo lento

Track length7:15

Copland: Sextet for string quartet, clarinet & piano

Work length15:08

Vanbrugh Quartet (string quartet), Michael Collins (clarinet), Martin Roscoe (piano), Gregory Ellis (violin), Keith Pascoe (violin), Simon Aspell (viola), Christopher Marwood (cello)
Recorded: 1999-04-15
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk

1. Allegro vivace -

Track length4:13

2. Lento -

Track length5:34

3. Finale. Precise and rhythmic

Track length5:21

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This fine collection of Copland's small output of chamber music offers the first British recording of Movement, a characteristically introspective piece from his student years in Paris which shares a theme with the Symphony for Organand Orchestra. The Two Pieces (1928) are also rarities well worth having, the rapid second one embodying to perfection the ideals of Nadia Boulanger's teaching.
Then there are the three major chamber works, starting with Vitebsk, the 1929 trio based on a Jewish folk theme. This is a commanding performance, which makes the most of the off-key quarter- tones and is thoroughly adroit in the central Allegro. The Sextet is a genuine chamber piece, although it was an arrangement of the Short Symphony which was found too difficult for most orchestras in 1933 and had to wait until 1944 for its American premiere. With Collins and Roscoe the Vanbrugh give an accomplished performance of the Sextet's sparklingly affirmative rhythms.
The Piano Quartet (1950) is in the same slowquick- slow layout as Vitebsk. Like the final slow movement of the Piano Sonata its outer movements have a sublime immobility. Written while Copland was working on his great cycle, TwelvePoems of Emily Dickinson, the first two movements of this impressive quartet enter new territory, Copland tentatively exploring serial techniques. A few exposed string phrases lack finesse, and some soft details in the piano are almost lost – at the end of the first movement and more seriously at the end of the last movement when the dissonant note in the last chord is inaudible. But this is a valuable collection, well worth acquiring to have all these works together, played – and recorded – like this.

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