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Evans / Glass / Antheil / Herrmann - 4 American Quartets | Naxos - American Classics 8559354

Evans / Glass / Antheil / Herrmann - 4 American Quartets

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Label: Naxos - American Classics

Cat No: 8559354

Barcode: 0636943935422

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 30th June 2008

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About

This recording gathers four string quartets by American composers who are widely divergent in style and manner, and who have made a distinctive and personal contribution to this endlessly re-inventive format.

Finally completed in 1995, Ralph Evans’s First String Quartet is written in a non-derivative style, with tuneful melodies, lively counterpoint and piquant harmonies. Philip Glass has completed five mature quartets, his Second Quartet deriving from a theatrical presentation of Samuel Beckett’s prose poem Company.

The self-styled ‘bad boy of classical music’, George Antheil wrote three string quartets, the third of which is permeated by a folk-music ambience. Best remembered for his film scores, Bernard Herrmann had not released a concert work for 25 years when he wrote Echoes. Its title applies to the thematic connections unobtrusively linking the ten sections of this one-movement piece.

Fine Arts Quartet:
- Ralph Evans (violin)
- Efim Boico (violin)
- Yuri Gandelsman (viola)
- Wolfgang Laufer (cello)

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