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David Matthews - String Quartets Vol.1   | Toccata Classics TOCC0058

David Matthews - String Quartets Vol.1

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Label: Toccata Classics

Cat No: TOCC0058

Barcode: 5060113440587

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 19th April 2010

Contents

About

David Matthews (b.1943) is the leading living British composer of symphonies and string quartets: to date he has written seven symphonies and eleven string quartets.

He takes his place in the mainstream of western classical music: ‘I have continued along a path similar to that taken by Tippett and Britten: one rooted in the Viennese Classics – Beethoven above all – and also in Mahler, Sibelius and the early twentieth-century modernists’.

The music on this CD is powerful but approachable: ‘I have always been a tonal composer, attempting to integrate the musical language of the present with the past, and to explore the rich traditional forms.

This first volume of his complete string quartets presents works written between 1981 and 2001.

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