Tippett Quartet

Tippett Quartet – Alwyn & Carwithen: Music for String Quartet (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · November 20, 2023 · Comments off

SOMM RECORDINGS’ coupling of string quartets by teacher and pupil William Alwyn and Doreen Carwithen offers a revealing glimpse – in illuminating performances by the Tippett Quartet – into the relationship between a master composer and his promising student who became one of the great ‘what might have beens’ of British 20th-century music.

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Tippett Quartet – Penderecki: Complete Music for String Quartet and String Trio (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · November 18, 2023 · Comments off

Penderecki wrote music for string quartet over a period of 56 years. His String Quartet No. 1 was written in the same year that he achieved international success with Threnody (Naxos 8.554491), and includes a wide range of playing techniques reflective of the avant-garde. String Quartet No. 2 reveals the influence of Ligeti, while No. 3 is a personal, even autobiographical work. In No. 4 there are modal or even folk inflections, in writing that is both limpid and abrasive. The eventful Der unterbrochene Gedanke completes Penderecki’s music for quartet, while the String Trio exemplifies his music’s motoric energy.

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Tippett Quartet – Górecki: Complete String Quartets, Vol. 2 (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · November 18, 2023 · Comments off

The Sonata for Two Violins is one of Henryk Górecki’s earliest acknowledged works—its contrasts, instrumental rivalries and sophisticated technique a worthy rounding-off of his formative period. The Third String Quartet with its evocative subtitle ‘…songs are sung’ represents a culmination of Górecki’s preoccupations with elaborate and emotive melodic shapes and closely intertwined harmonies, its final minutes recalling the beauty and poignancy of the composer’s Third Symphony.

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Pénélope Thwaites, Benjamin Frith, Tippett Quartet – Gardens, Fables, Prisons, Dreams (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · August 30, 2023 · Comments off

SOMM is delighted to announce the release of Gardens, Fables, Prisons, Dreams, eight first recordings of chamber music by composer Penelope Thwaites paying homage to “the heroes, the witty wordsmiths, the dancers, the poets and the visionaries, and two great composers” who have influenced her musical life. Thwaites is joined by fellow pianist Benjamin Frith for the exuberant six-part A Lamberth Garland, the enchanting eight-part retelling of Oscar Wilde’s fable The Selfish Giant and Thwaites’ arrangement of Delius’s In a Summer Garden, the first to be made for two pianos. She is heard with John Mills (viiolin) and Bozidar Vukotic (cello) on Vijay’s Fable, drawn from her culture-fusing score for Indian choreographer Vijaylakshmi Subramaniam, and the atmospheric Mazurka: Au Tombeau de Chopin. The Tippett Quartet contribute three memorable performances; Jan Palach’s Theme, recalling the self-immolating student protestor against the Soviet Union’s 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia; For Irina, a tribute to dissident Russian poet Irina Ratushinskaya who survived imprisonment but died of cancer in 2017; and with double bassist Laurence Ungless for To the Hills, a string quintet version of Thwaites’ earlier choral setting of Psalm 121. Since her 1974 London debut at Wigmore Hall, she has performed in more than 30 countries, and is internationally known as an acclaimed pianist and editor of The New Percy Grainger Companion, the standard reference book on performing his music.

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Tippett Quartet – Korngold: String Quartets Nos. 1-3 (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · April 25, 2023 · Comments off

Erich Wolfgang Korngold wrote a significant body of chamber music (the Piano Trio and String Sextet are on Naxos 8.574008). His three String Quartets reflect differing periods of composition. The First marries impetuousness with enticing harmonies and rapt eloquence. The Second, which dates from 1933, is notable for its clarity, rhythmic impetus and melodic directness. The post-war Third is more relaxed, unexpectedly juxtaposing the archaic and modern with a joyful conclusion.

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James Atkinson, Tippett Quartet, Lynn Arnold – Derek B. Scott: 6 Song-Cycles for Baritone & Chamber Ensemble (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · April 6, 2023 · Comments off

James Atkinson, Tippett Quartet, Lynn Arnold - Derek B. Scott: 6 Song-Cycles for Baritone & Chamber Ensemble (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download

James Atkinson, Tippett Quartet, Lynn Arnold – Derek B. Scott: 6 Song-Cycles for Baritone & Chamber Ensemble (2021)
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Derek Scott, born in Birmingham in 1950, has an international reputation as a leading historian of the British music hall and other forms of light entertainment. But he is an outstanding composer in his own right, his music treading a fine line between a very English whimsy and a profoundly felt and natural response to his subject matter. These six song-cycles – with influences ranging from Vaughan Williams to The Beatles – reveal a master craftsman and natural tunesmith, who manages to unite good humour, unerring technique and deep feeling in music of immediate appeal, setting texts by poets who include Burns, Hardy, Shakespeare, Swift, Wordsworth, Yeats and the composer himself.
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Tippett Quartet – Vaughan Williams & Holst: String Quartets (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · November 8, 2022 · Comments off

SOMM Recordings celebrates the 150th anniversary of Ralph Vaughan Williams’s birth with insightful, deeply felt accounts of his String Quartets Nos. 1 and 2, coupled with Gustav Holst’s Phantasy Quartet, by the Tippett Quartet.

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