Maggini Quartet – Berkeley: String Quartets Nos. 1-3 (2007)
EAC | APE (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:02:58 | 306 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Naxos | Catalog: 8.570415
EAC | APE (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:02:58 | 306 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Naxos | Catalog: 8.570415
This disc, another in the Maggini Quartet's series of recordings of string quartets by twentieth century English composers for Naxos, brings together the three quartets of Lennox Berkeley. And as in the group's previous recordings of quartets by Bridge, Arnold, and Rawsthorne, the music proves as excellent as it is unexpected. Berkeley's quartets date from 1935, 1941, and 1970, and each sounds like a work of its time yet still characteristic of the composer.