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Background: For British composer William Alwyn the string quartet was the 'most perfect of mediums'. His String Quartet No.1 of 1953 recalls the sound worlds of Dvorák, Janácek and Smetana, while repaying his debt to the Czech tradition with memorably original music.

Almost 22 years later, his Second Quartet, 'Spring Waters', was prefaced by lines from Turgenev's novel of the same name: 'My careless years, / My precious days, / like the waters of springtime, / Have melted away.' The passionate opening of his Third, composed in 1984 and Alwyn's swansong, leads to a conclusion of elegiac serenity.

CATALOGUE NR: 8570560
RECORD LABEL: Naxos
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 5.75
RELEASE DATE: 27-Oct-2008

COMPOSER: William Alwyn
TITLE: String Quartets
TRACKS: String Quartet No.1 in D minor. String Quartet No.2 'Spring Waters'. String Quartet No.3. Novelette: Allegro con brio.
ARTISTS: Maggini Qt      

- Jan-2009 5 star BBC Music Mag.

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