This album features four of Glass' five quartets, offering splendidly committed, fresh and exciting performances from the Carducci Quartet, aa award-winning young chamber group/5(8).

Label: Naxos - • Series: American Classics • Format: CD Album • Country: US • Genre: Classical • Style: Contemporary Philip Glass - Carducci Quartet* - String Quartets Nos. (, CD) | Discogs4/5(3).

The string quartets of Philip Glass occupy a small but significant place in his catalog, for they present a sound palette that is distinct from his other ensemble works, and offer expressions that are unusually neo-Romantic for this minimalist composer. The chromatic dissonances and apparent atonality of the String Quartet No. 1 () separate it from the rest of the quartets, but even in.

GLASS, P.: String Quartets Nos. (Carducci String Quartet) Although Philip Glass came late to the string quartet, his contribution to the genre has since become a significant one. This disc features the first four of his five quartets, ranging from the uncharacteristic yet fascinating sound-world of the First, through the compact dimensions of the subsequent two (themselves derived from theatre and film .

About. Although Philip Glass came late to the string quartet, his contribution to the genre has since become a significant one. This disc features the first four of his five quartets, ranging from the uncharacteristic yet fascinating sound-world of the First, through the compact dimensions of the subsequent two (themselves derived from theatre and film scores).

By , Philip Glass had written five string quartets, between and , and the British Smith Quartet has collected them all in this Signum release. The album is an intriguing testimony to the variety of Glass' output and the ways his music has evolved. The first quartet, in two slow movements, written in soon after he had completed his studies with Nadia Boulanger and had had his.

Philip Glass – String Quartets Although Philip Glass came late to the string quartet, his contribution to the genre has since become a significant one. This disc features the first four of his five quartets, ranging from the uncharacteristic yet fascinating sound-world of the First, through the compact dimensions of the subsequent two (themselves derived from theatre and film scores).

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