Shortly after World War II, Peter Racine Fricker began a promising career as a composer, and his String Quartet No. 1 (1948-49) was one of several successful works that brought him international attention. Associated neither with the English pastoral group that gathered around Vaughan Williams, nor with Schoenberg's 12-tone school, Fricker was difficult to pigeonhole, and his music was loosely compared to Bartók, Stravinsky, and Hindemith, due to his adherence to tonality, free use of dissonant counterpoint, and interest in ...
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Shortly after World War II, Peter Racine Fricker began a promising career as a composer, and his String Quartet No. 1 (1948-49) was one of several successful works that brought him international attention. Associated neither with the English pastoral group that gathered around Vaughan Williams, nor with Schoenberg's 12-tone school, Fricker was difficult to pigeonhole, and his music was loosely compared to Bartók, Stravinsky, and Hindemith, due to his adherence to tonality, free use of dissonant counterpoint, and interest in rhythmic innovation. As a result, Fricker fell out of favor with the serialist avant-garde of the '50s and the aleatoric movement of the '60s, and his music more or less disappeared from the repertoire. Because of this undeserved fate, two of Fricker's three string quartets and his Adagio and Scherzo (1943) finally receive their world premiere recordings on this 2016 Naxos release of the complete quartets, performed with vigor by the Villiers Quartet, and it's a welcome revival of a...
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