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Bainbridge - Chamber Music | Toccata Classics TOCC0573

Bainbridge - Chamber Music

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Label: Toccata Classics

Cat No: TOCC0573

Barcode: 5060113445735

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 5th February 2021

Contents

Artists

Linda Merrick (clarinet)
Kreutzer Quartet

Works

Bainbridge, Simon

Cheltenham Fragments
Clarinet Quintet
String Quartet no.1
String Quartet no.2

Artists

Linda Merrick (clarinet)
Kreutzer Quartet

About

The composing career of Simon Bainbridge (born in London in 1952) is spanned by the four chamber works in this album, all of them cast as single narrative spans. The First String Quartet, written when its composer was not yet twenty, blends lyricism and pointillism, rather as if it were recasting abstract poetry in sound; and the recent Second offers a kaleidoscopic tableau of colour and nervous energy inspired by visual art. In his Cheltenham Fragments, as the title suggests, Bainbridge uses mosaic technique to build up textures and thematic outlines. And the long lines of the virtuosic Clarinet Quintet generate fleetfooted whirlwinds as they unfold.

Linda Merrick and the Kreutzer Quartet worked closely with the composer on the preparation of these recordings.

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