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Q Porter - String Quartets Nos 1-4

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Label: Naxos - American Classics

Cat No: 8559305

Barcode: 0636943930526

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 2nd July 2007

Works

Porter, Quincy

String Quartet no.1
String Quartet no.2
String Quartet no.3
String Quartet no.4

Artists

Ives Quartet

Works

Porter, Quincy

String Quartet no.1
String Quartet no.2
String Quartet no.3
String Quartet no.4

Artists

Ives Quartet

About

Quincy Porter was one of a diverse generation of American composers who played a significant rôle in shaping and directing American musical culture in the mid-twentieth century. Although his orchestral works attracted considerable attention in his lifetime, Porter’s posthumous reputation rests more on his chamber output – specifically the series of nine string quartets that stretches across the greater part of his composing career.

This disc features the first four of these quartets, all of them written in less than a decade. They demonstrate Porter’s idiomatic and inventive writing for strings.

Praise for a previous release of the Third Quartet: “As a viola player, Porter was an insider to chamber music, like Frank Bridge, and it shows in idiomatic writing. But his lyricism and effortless continuity take him closer in style to Lennox Berkeley…” Gramophone

Ives Quartet:
Bettina Mussumeli (violin I), Susan Freier (violin II), Jodi Levitz (viola), Stephen Harrison (cello)