Fine Arts Quartet - Four American Quartets on CD
Fine Arts Quartet - Four American Quartets
With works by:
Ralph Evans (geb. 1953)
, Philip Glass (geb. 1937)
, George Antheil (1900-1959)
, Bernard Herrmann (1911-1975)
Contributors:
Fine Arts Quartet
CD
CD (Compact Disc)
Conventional CD, playable with all CD players and computer drives, but also with most SACD or multiplayers.
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Evans: Streichquartett Nr. 1
+Glass: Streichquartett Nr. 2
+Antheil: Streichquartett Nr. 3
+Herrmann: Echoes für Streichquartett
- Artists:
- Fine Arts Quartet
- Label:
- Naxos
- Year of recording ca.:
- 2007
- Item number:
- 5300939
- UPC/EAN:
- 0636943935422
- Release date:
- 4.7.2008
- Series:
- Naxos American Classics
This recording gathers four string quartets by American composers who are widely divergent in style and manner, and who have made a distinctive and personal contribution to this endlessly re-inventive format. Ralph Evans is more familiar as a performer than composer. Finally completed in 1995, his First String Quartet is written in a non-derivative style, with tuneful melodies, lively counterpoint and piquant harmonies. Philip Glass has completed five mature quartets, his Second Quartet deriving from a theatrical presentation of Samuel Beckett's prose poem Company. The self-styled 'bad boy of American music', George Antheil wrote three string quartets, the third of which is permeated by a folk-music ambience. Best remembered for his film scores, Bernard Herrmann had not released a concert work for 25 years when he wrote Echoes. Its title applies to the thematic connections unobtrusively linking the ten sections of this one-movement piece.
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Tracklisting
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Contributors
Disk 1 von 1 (CD)
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1 Ralph Evans: String Quartet No. 1: I. Moderato
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2 Ralph Evans: String Quartet No. 1: II. Andante espressivo
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3 Ralph Evans: String Quartet No. 1: Iii. Allegro Scherzando
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4 Philip Glass: String Quartet No. 2, "Company": I. quarter note = 96
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5 Philip Glass: String Quartet No. 2, "Company": II. quarter note = 160
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6 Philip Glass: String Quartet No. 2, "company": Iii. Quarter Note = 96
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7 Philip Glass: String Quartet No. 2, "Company": IV. quarter note = 160
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8 George Antheil: String Quartet No. 3: I. Allegretto
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9 George Antheil: String Quartet No. 3: II. Largo
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10 George Antheil: String Quartet No. 3: Iii. Quasi Presto (Scherzo)
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11 George Antheil: String Quartet No. 3: IV. Allegro giocoso
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12 Bernard Herrmann: Echoes
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