Michael Tippett was a fully rounded modern composer, with demonstrated mastery in a broad range of genres. He was especially attracted to the string quartet and wrote five mature quartets over the course of his career. In this first volume of the quartets recorded for Naxos, the Tippett Quartet plays his first, second, and fourth quartets. The first and second quartets, written when Tippett was in his thirties, are characterized by the effulgent lyricism tempered by angularity and astringency that mark the composer's early ...
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Michael Tippett was a fully rounded modern composer, with demonstrated mastery in a broad range of genres. He was especially attracted to the string quartet and wrote five mature quartets over the course of his career. In this first volume of the quartets recorded for Naxos, the Tippett Quartet plays his first, second, and fourth quartets. The first and second quartets, written when Tippett was in his thirties, are characterized by the effulgent lyricism tempered by angularity and astringency that mark the composer's early style, which culminated in his first opera The Midsummer Marriage. Tippett cites Beethoven as his model for quartet writing, and Beethoven's combination of disciplined rigor and inspired inventiveness is clear in the structure of Tippett's writing. The sound world of the first two quartets, though, is closer to that of Debussy's quartet, in their sonorities and textures; they are clearly modern works, but their gestures and mood echo a late-Romantic sensuality. The third movement of...
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