Glazunov: Complete String Quartets, Vol. 1
Tippett Quartet
The Tippett Quartet brings much bright, extrovert energy to this music, but their approach occasionally works against music that already tends towards textural sameness and overworked thematic...
Glazunov: Complete String Quartets, Vol. 1
Tippett Quartet
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The Tippett Quartet brings much bright, extrovert energy to this music, but their approach occasionally works against music that already tends towards textural sameness and overworked thematic...
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Alexander Glazunov’s seven string quartets extend over the entirety of his composing career and are equal in significance to his symphonies. Fused with nationalist sentiment and Classical discipline the First String Quartet secured the Glinka Prize for the teenage composer in 1884. The advances in expressive range and formal integration in the Second Quartet include a rapturous slow movement considered a highlight of his earlier output, while the Third Quartet has become known as ‘The Slavonic’ for its evocative folk-music character.
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May 2026
The Tippett Quartet brings much bright, extrovert energy to this music, but their approach occasionally works against music that already tends towards textural sameness and overworked thematic material.
June 2026
the Tippett Quartet seem determined to make the first movement bracing as well as genial… fluently polyphonic and eminently charming… thrilling in their own way, definitely worth sampling
