MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Tippett: String Quartets Nos. 1 - 4 (recorded in 1990)
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SIR MICHAEL TIPPETT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Tippett: String Quartets Nos. 1 - 4 (recorded in 1990)
The Britten Quartet
[ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD ]
Release Date: Thursday 1 March 2012
In his String Quartets, the most challenging and complicated musical form,Tippett draws inspiration from the late quartetsof Beethoven, particularly in hisfugal writing, and the intricate and complex textures of the 4 voices.
Sir Michael Tippett (1905-98) wrote a total of seven string quartets, along with two early efforts that he himself suppressed, deeming the works too immature. Like the symphonies, the Quartets Nos. 1-4, heard on this disc, span Tippett's development as a composer, and reveal his deep feeling and skill for contrapuntal music.
Drawing particular inspiration from Beethoven, who Tippett held a great admiration for, the quartets display a rigorous
intellectual logic and stylistic features that bear the hallmarks of Beethoven's late style.
In String Quartets Nos. 2 and 3, for example, Tippett places particular prominence on fugal writing, Nos. 1 and 2 display hints of sonata form, while String Quartet No.4 is a
multi-movement work - four movements played without a break.Yet despite Tippett's sources of inspiration, these works are also testament to his fundamentally innovative
approach to composition, heard in the complex and intricate combinations of rhythms, structural experimentation and
assured manipulation of string sonorities.
