Kreutzer Quartet

Kreutzer Quartet – The Kreutzer Effect (2024) [24Bit-192kHz] FLAC [PMEDIA] ⭐️
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:23:25 minutes | 2,77 GB | Genre: Classique
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover

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Kreutzer Quartet – Edward Cowie: The Kreutzer Effect (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:23:25 minutes | 2,77 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Métier

Considered one of the most influential composers inspired by the natural world, Edward Cowie’s collaboration with the exceptional Kreutzer String Quartet spans nearly a decade. This partnership has resulted in the recording of Cowie’s first six quartets, as well as remarkable solo and duo works showcasing the quartet’s unparalleled skill. Now, Cowie presents his seventh string quartet, “Western Australia,” specially crafted for the Kreutzer Quartet, accompanied by four solo portrait pieces dedicated to each member. From the ethereal heights of Clifton Harrison’s viola to the intricate melodies inspired by the habits of owls for Neil Heyde’s cello, Cowie’s compositions reflect a profound reverence for both the human animal and the natural world.

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Kreutzer Quartet – David Matthews: Complete String Quartets, Vol. 5 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:03:08 minutes | 2,10 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Toccata Classics

The American critic Robert Reilly described the music on Volume One of this cycle of the complete string quartets of David Matthews (b. 1943) as ‘some of the most concentrated, penetrating writing for this medium in the past 30 years or more. It is musical thinking of the highest order and quartet writing in the great tradition of Beethoven, Bartók, Britten, and Tippett’. Matthews’ three most recent quartets call in a wide range of references. Birdsong – heard in Nos. 13 and 14 – is a standard Matthews topos; and the fugal No. 15 seems to find a middle ground between late Beethoven and folk-music. No. 13 presents the biggest surprise: it introduces four solo voices, siting the work somewhere between Berg’s Lyric Suite and Vaughan Williams’ Serenade to Music. Some touching arrangements and two canons for two Michaels – Tippett and Berkeley – complete the programme.
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Kreutzer Quartet – Michael Finnissy: Six Sexy Minuets Three Trios and Other Works (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:08:21 minutes | 2,30 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Metier

Michael Finnissy is one of the acknowledged geniuses in the field of new music, with a style which can be exceptionally adventurous (and difficult) but almost always retains a tonal core which reveals his myriad influences and inspirations often from folk music and classic literature. Of the current recordings in our catalog, those featuring works for string quartet, with or without other instruments, have been the most regularly popular.

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