Villiers Quartet - Alwyn: The Early String Quartets (2020)
Villiers Quartet - Alwyn: The Early String Quartets (2020)
WEB FLAC (tracks+booklet) - 277 MB | Tracks: 15 | 75:29 min
Style: Classical | Label: Lyrita
WEB FLAC (tracks+booklet) - 277 MB | Tracks: 15 | 75:29 min
Style: Classical | Label: Lyrita
Alwyn's musical style is in the main of a romantic nature firmly grounded in tonality, notwithstanding some forays into modernity, calling on dissonance and freedom of from when he felt the need. This approach can be keenly felt in the works included on this disc, all of which were completed when he was aged between eighteen and twenty-five. The medium of the string quartet held a long and lasting fascination for Alwyn, which began during the earliest years of his composing career. He was to compose a total of sixteen string quartets between the years 1920 and 1984. Alwyn considered that the string quartet was 'the most intimate of mediums' and revelled in the challenge to provide interesting material in which to balance the four instruments. The sixteen string quartets that he was to compose can be divided into two groups; the first thirteen quartets were composed between 1920 and 1936, and the last three quartets were composed between 1953 and 1984.
Tracklist:
1. I. Prelude. Allegro
2. II. Passacaglia. Moderato
3. III. Rondo: Allegro Ma Non Troppo
4. IV. Retrospect. Adagio E Tranquillo
5. I. Moderato
6. II. Interlude. Andante Con Moto
7. III. Scherzo. Allegro
8. IV. Theme, Variations and Finale. Allegretto
9. I. Adagio Molto E Tranquillo/II. Adagio Ma Non Troppo/III. Poco Piu Mosso
10. IV. Andantino (Quasi Allegretto)/V. Allegro Moderato/VI. Andante Con Moto
11. VII. Allegro
12. The Little Red Lark/Air/The Maiden Ray
13. The Ewe With the Crooked Horn/The Gentle Maiden/Who'll Buy My Benson's
14. Jig
15. Adagio Molto E Tranquillo - Poco Agitato - Adagio
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