Special offer. Joan Tower: String Quartets Nos. 3, 4 & 5
Blair McMillen (piano)
Miami String Quartet, Daedalus Quartet
The best example is Incandescent, a pulsating dance of heat and light, brilliantly sustained by the Miami Quartet. The Daedalus Quartet’s presentation of White Water…is almost as impressive…everything...
Special offer. Joan Tower: String Quartets Nos. 3, 4 & 5
Blair McMillen (piano)
Miami String Quartet, Daedalus Quartet
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The best example is Incandescent, a pulsating dance of heat and light, brilliantly sustained by the Miami Quartet. The Daedalus Quartet’s presentation of White Water…is almost as impressive…everything...
About
Widely regarded as one of America’s pre-eminent living composers, Joan Tower, who is also a pianist, is particularly devoted to chamber music. Organic structures underpin her string quartets – there is ‘heat from within’ and radiance of texture in Incandescent, her third quartet, virtuosic interplay in the fourth, Angels, and fluid connections in White Water, her fifth quartet. Tower is only the third composer – after Stravinsky and Copland – to be commissioned by the Dumbarton Oaks Foundation, and her Dumbarton Quintet pursues xtremes of moods both consonant and dissonant.
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Awards and reviews
July 2016
The best example is Incandescent, a pulsating dance of heat and light, brilliantly sustained by the Miami Quartet. The Daedalus Quartet’s presentation of White Water…is almost as impressive…everything is performed with high panache, and recorded with the warmth and clarity that every fine chamber group deserves
8th May 2016
This disc of fairly recent chamber works by one of the most prominent American composers (b1938)...makes a vivid case for the timeless relevance of the thoroughly well argued in music...Shostakovich’s influence on the Dumbarton (piano) Quintet is profoundly absorbed.
December 2016
The three pieces, each an unbroken span of about 17 minutes, move lithely within a post-Bergian harmonic idiom.
The Classical Reviewer June 2016
Wonderful works for string quartet by Joan Tower that are full of vibrancy as well as intense feeling
