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Composer:
Michael Tippett

Artist(s):
Britten Qt

Background: Sir Michael Tippett (1905-98) wrote a total of seven string quartets, along with two early efforts that he himself suppressed, deeming the works too immature. Like the symphonies, the Quartets Nos. 1- 4, heard on this disc, span Tippett's development as a composer, and reveal his deep feeling and skill for contrapuntal music. Drawing particular inspiration from Beethoven, who Tippett held a great admiration for, the quartets display a rigorous intellectual logic and stylistic features that bear the hallmarks of Beethoven's late style. In String Quartets Nos. 2 and 3, for example, Tippett places particular prominence on fugal writing, Nos. 1 and 2 display hints of sonata form, while String Quartet No.4 is a multi-movement work -- four movements played without a break.Yet despite Tippett's sources of inspiration, these works are also testament to his fundamentally innovative approach to composition, heard in the complex and intricate combinations of rhythms, structural experimentation and assured manipulation of string sonorities.

CATALOGUE NR: 9257
RECORD LABEL: Brilliant Classics
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: including VAT £ 7.69
RELEASE DATE: 26-Mar-2012

COMPOSER: Michael Tippett
TITLE: String Quartets
TRACKS: String Quartet No.1. String Quartet No.2 in F sharp. String Quartet No.3. String Quartet No.4.
ARTISTS: Britten Qt      

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: recorded Dec-1990 St George's Brandon Hill Bristol

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