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Tippett - String Quartets
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Label: Wigmore Hall Live
Cat No: WHLIVE00802
Barcode: 5065000924812
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 11th December 2015
The Wigmore hush – and the Heaths’ response to it – is most beneficial in the long, fragile span of the Fifth’s finale. Caution is thrown to the winds most memorably in the Fourth Quartet, the cycle’s charged flashpoint. The Heaths maintain tension throughout, withholding arrival-points from this birth-to-life narrative, whereas The Lindsays allow breathing space in the central, Bartókian nocturne. Both approaches are persuasive, but no one has dramatised the finale’s palindrome, with a spooky hall of mirrored harmonics at its centre, with the poise of the Heaths. A tremendous achievement. 
The admirable Heath Quartet, formed at the Royal Northern College in 2002, played the [Tippett] cycle in four concerts at Wigmore Hall, from which these incisive, vibrant performances are taken. [...] Well worth exploring. 
These works are all rewarding and do not suffer from the same failings as some of his later works in other genres. The Heath Quartet bring to them splendid energy and commitment … if you want a recent set played by an ensemble which accepts these works on their own terms as part of the repertory the Heath Quartet will do very well. 
