Arnold Cooke: Complete String Quartets, Volume One
Bridge String Quartet
the Bridge Quartet…play Cooke’s quartets with robust energy and clarity.
Arnold Cooke: Complete String Quartets, Volume One
Bridge String Quartet
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the Bridge Quartet…play Cooke’s quartets with robust energy and clarity.
About
The music of the Yorkshire-born Arnold Cooke (1906–2005) – solidly constructed, inventively contrapuntal, lyrical and energetic in turns – does not deserve the neglect it suffered even in its composer’s lifetime. This first album, of two presenting all five of Cooke’s string quartets, underlines his reputation for resourceful craftsmanship, presented in a style which sits downstream from Paul Hindemith, with whom he studied in Berlin, and from Béla Bartók.
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Awards and reviews
Mar/Apr 2024
the Bridge Quartet…play Cooke’s quartets with robust energy and clarity.
October 2023
The performance is committed and enthusiastic. The Bridge Quartet has played these works at concert venues over the past few years, and are clearly powerful advocates of Cooke’s chamber music. The recording is ideal.
