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Background: 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.

CATALOGUE NR: 8559354
RECORD LABEL: Naxos
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 4.77 including VAT, or £ 4.15 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 30-Jun-2008

COMPOSER: Ralph Evans  (other composers in brackets after works)
TITLE: Four American Quartets
TRACKS: String Quartet No.1 (Ralph Evans. String Quartet No.2 'Company' (Philip Glass). String Quartet No.3 (George Antheil). Echoes for String Quartet (Bernard Herrmann).
ARTISTS: Fine Arts Qt      

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