Ronald Corp: String Quartets

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[Country Matters] are set with brio, to a deftly fashioned quartet accompaniment, in a style mixing Facade-style Waltonian Sprechgesang with melodic writing. Mark Wilde and the Maggini Quartet... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 28th Feb 2011
Catalogue No: 8572578
Label: Naxos
Length: 72 minutes

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Corp: String Quartet No. 1 ‘The Bustard’

Work length24:57

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Maggini Quartet

I. Moderato

Track length5:18

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II. Mesto semplice

Track length9:29

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III. Scherzo vivo

Track length3:11

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IV. Moderato assai - Più allegro non troppo - Allegro vivace

Track length6:59

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Corp: Country Matters

Work length19:28

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Mark Wilde
Maggini Quartet

I. I Heard They Were Opening the Zoo

Track length2:17

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II. Bird Song

Track length3:28

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III. Pleasures Past

Track length3:16

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IV. Don't Go Into the Kitchen

Track length1:10

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V. Something Sad

Track length2:34

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VI. Come Into the Garden

Track length2:05

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VII. City of Wells

Track length4:38

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Corp: String Quartet No. 2

Work length28:02

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Maggini Quartet

I. Allegro

Track length6:26

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II. Scherzo

Track length6:03

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III. Moderato mesto

Track length9:05

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IV. Allegro vivo

Track length6:28

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Best known as a conductor and composer of choral music, British composer and conductor Ronald Corp now makes his Naxos chamber music début with this disc. The Magginis gave the first performance of Ronald Corp's Second String Quartet at Canterbury Christ Church University on 11th June 2010. In the words of the composer: "The success of the first quartet ('The Bustard', premiered by the Magginis at the Wigmore Hall in February 2008) presented me with two happy outcomes. The first was the realisation that I could express myself effectively in non-vocal music on a larger scale, and also the enthusiasm of the audience encouraged me straight away to write a 'sister' work".

Corp’s String Quartet No. 1 takes its name from the world’s largest, most stately and regal bird, the bustard, whose soaring flight and dance-like gait are evoked in this fascinating piece. String Quartet No. 2 celebrates a baby boy’s birth with joyful and exuberant music. The composer describes his song-cycle Country Matters as ‘poignant and riotously outrageous’. The soloist here is tenor Mark Wilde.

"The Maggini is colonising British string quartets, and offering seldom-played works at Naxos's budget price. This superbly recorded disc once again places us in its debt.” The Strad

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October 2011

[Country Matters] are set with brio, to a deftly fashioned quartet accompaniment, in a style mixing Facade-style Waltonian Sprechgesang with melodic writing. Mark Wilde and the Maggini Quartet show exemplary enthusiasm.

6th March 2011

The First Quartet, which draws its inspiration from the character and habitat of that noble bird the bustard, is, like its companion piece, well made and securely in an English tradition voiced with supple energy.

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