David Matthews: Complete String Quartets Volume 1

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Not only our most prominent symphonist, Matthews leads the way in maintaining the time-honoured genre of the string quartet...The Kreutzers’ performances are deeply felt. — Sunday Times, 6th June 2010

Release Date: 19th Apr 2010
Catalogue No: TOCC0058
Label: Toccata Classics
Series: David Matthews' String Quartets
Length: 64 minutes

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Matthews, D: String Quartet No. 4, Op. 27

Work length30:57

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Kreutzer Quartet

I. Poco lento - Andante con moto

Track length4:09

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II. Molto vivace

Track length5:53

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III. Adagio sostenuto

Track length7:27

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IV. Allegro

Track length13:28

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Matthews, D: Adagio, Op. 56a

Work length4:01

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Kreutzer Quartet

Matthews, D: String Quartet No. 6, Op. 56

Work length16:22

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Kreutzer Quartet

I. Allegro moderato e flessibile

Track length4:10

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II. Adagio

Track length7:49

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III. Allegro energico

Track length4:23

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Matthews, D: String Quartet No. 10, Op. 84

Work length12:51

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Kreutzer Quartet

I. Lontano

Track length5:03

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II. Vivace

Track length7:48

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To date David Matthews (b. 1943) has written seven symphonies and eleven string quartets. ‘I have continued’, he explains, ‘along a path similar to that taken by Tippett and Britten: one rooted in the Viennese Classics – Beethoven above all – and also in Mahler, Sibelius and the early twentieth-century modernists. I have always been a tonal composer, attempting to integrate the musical language of the present with the past, and to explore the rich traditional forms.’ This first volume of his complete string quartets presents works written between 1981 and 2001.

He takes his place in the mainstream of western classical music: ‘I have continued along a path similar to that taken by Tippett and Britten: one rooted in the Viennese Classics – Beethoven above all – and also in Mahler, Sibelius and the early twentieth-century modernists’.

The music on this CD is powerful but approachable: ‘I have always been a tonal composer, attempting to integrate the musical language of the present with the past, and to explore the rich traditional forms.’

This first volume of his complete string quartets presents works written between 1981 and 2001.

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6th June 2010

Not only our most prominent symphonist, Matthews leads the way in maintaining the time-honoured genre of the string quartet...The Kreutzers’ performances are deeply felt.

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