Górecki: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2
Tippett Quartet
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2019, Editor's Choice
Throughout, the Tippett Quartet are sympathetic and expert interpreters negotiating Gorecki’s soundworld with a strong sense of ensemble and making the most of the abundant contrasts of material...
Górecki: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2
Tippett Quartet
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Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2019, Editor's Choice
Throughout, the Tippett Quartet are sympathetic and expert interpreters negotiating Gorecki’s soundworld with a strong sense of ensemble and making the most of the abundant contrasts of material...
About
With the belated success of his Third Symphony 'Symphony of Sorrowful Songs' (Naxos 8.550822), Górecki emerged in the 1990s as a composer of world stature. Between 1988 and 1995 he wrote three string quartets for the Kronos Quartet that are among his most important mature works. String Quartet No. 1 reveals chorale-like themes, so much a feature of his later writing, as well as hectic, dance-like motion, while the Second Quartet's wider range of expression explicitly evokes Beethoven. Genesis I: Elementi offers a powerful contrast – a string trio from 1962 of uncompromising immediacy.
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- Recorded: 20 July 2017
- Recording Venue: St. Nicholas Church, Thames Ditton, London, UK
Awards and reviews
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Gramophone MagazineJanuary 2019Editor's Choice
January 2019
Throughout, the Tippett Quartet are sympathetic and expert interpreters negotiating Gorecki’s soundworld with a strong sense of ensemble and making the most of the abundant contrasts of material and intensity. Perhaps not every detail is in place, but they are unquestionably impressive in externalising the coherence and formal integrity of these works.
January 2019
There are other outstanding recordings of these works…but the Tippetts not only provide renditions of equal stature, missing no nuance of either extreme calm or intransigent violence, but Naxos’s recording is as clear as a bell…This is a recording deserving of the very highest recommendation.
February 2019
The Tippett Quartet capture both the steeliness and humanity of this demanding but endlessly fascinating music.
