Rubbra: String Quartets Volume 2

Listen on Presto Music. Free thirty day trial. Find out more.

If you like your music written by a strong, but not strident musical personality, with faultlessly clear and clean technique to match, then these three string quartets offer something special...There... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 31st Jan 2011
Catalogue No: 8572555
Label: Naxos
Length: 54 minutes

This item is currently out of stock at the UK distributor. You may order it now but please be aware that it may be six weeks or more before it can be despatched.

British Music - up to 25% off

Special offer ends: 08/05/2024

Rubbra: String Quartet No.1 in F minor op.35

Work length19:04

$5.00

$6.50

Maggini Quartet

I. Allegro moderato

Track length7:10

$2.00

$2.60

II. Lento

Track length8:30

$2.00

$2.60

III. Vivace (Revised 1946 Version)

Track length3:24

$1.00

$1.30

Rubbra: String Quartet No.3 op.112

Work length19:12

$4.00

$5.20

Maggini Quartet

I. Largo ma molto flessibile - Allegretto

Track length8:53

$2.00

$2.60

II. Adagio

Track length6:09

$1.00

$1.30

III. Allegro leggiero

Track length4:10

$1.00

$1.30

Rubbra: String Quartet No.4 op.150

Work length16:08

$4.00

$5.20

Maggini Quartet

I. Andante moderato, ma liberamente - Allegretto scherzando

Track length7:59

$2.00

$2.60

II. Adagio e con molta espressione

Track length8:09

$2.00

$2.60

About
Reviews
Explore

About

The Maggini Quartet’s Naxos recordings of English string quartets by composers from Alwyn to Walton have gained numerous awards and critical plaudits. Their recording of Edmund Rubbra’s String Quartet No. 2 (8572286) was praised as ‘superbly integrated… undeniably a great success’ by Gramophone.

The English composer Edmund Rubbra described the string quartet as ‘the purest and most lucid texture available to a composer’, his essays in the form enlivened by Beethovenian vigour and song-like beauty.

It is a testament to his profound compositional craftsmanship that even when deploying diverse rhythms simultaneously or releasing the latent potential of what he called the ‘most positive yet mysterious intervals’, Rubbra weaves fascinating musical textures into a satisfying whole.

His remaining three string quartets, heard here, mark Rubbra as a great, though still undervalued, English composer whose music boasts an inexhaustible sense of freshness, a richly hued emotional palette and an abiding sense of optimism.

Reviews

June 2011

If you like your music written by a strong, but not strident musical personality, with faultlessly clear and clean technique to match, then these three string quartets offer something special...There performances are as expected from the fine Maggini Quartet: firm-toned but never too severe, balanced to near-perfection.

May 2011

[In the Third Quartet] one appreciates even more clearly what members of the Maggini Quartet say in the booklet-note: that Rubbra's quartet-writing displays satisfying organic development in the way that the themes evolve...This disc marks yet another superb contribution to the Magginis' survey of British string quartets.

2nd June 2011

this collection of the remainder sustains the impression of music that is beautifully conceived and crafted...the performances have all the usual Maggini finesse, a lean clarity and responsiveness.

20th February 2011

Too often bracketed with the English pastoral school, Edmund Rubbra (1901-86) was a highly individual voice in British music...This is surely music that will grow in stature, especially through these committed performances.

Offer,Rubbra: String Quartets Volume 2

CD

Downloads

Contents

Download queue