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EVANS, R.: String Quartet No. 1 / GLASS, P.: String Quartet No. 2 / ANTHEIL, G.: String Quartet No. 3 / HERRMANN, B.: Echoes
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EVANS, R.: String Quartet No. 1 / GLASS, P.: String Quartet No. 2 / ANTHEIL, G.: String Quartet No. 3 / HERRMANN, B.: Echoes
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This recording gathers four string quartets by American composers who are widely divergent in style and manner, and who have made a distinctive and personal contribution to this endlessly re-inventive format. Ralph Evans is more familiar as a performer than composer. Finally completed in 1995, his First String Quartet is written in a non-derivative style, with tuneful melodies, lively counterpoint and piquant harmonies. Philip Glass has completed five mature quartets, his Second Quartet deriving from a theatrical presentation of Samuel Beckett’s prose poem Company. The self-styled ‘bad boy of American music’, George Antheil wrote three string quartets, the third of which is permeated by a folk-music ambience. Best remembered for his film scores, Bernard Herrmann had not released a concert work for 25 years when he wrote Echoes. Its title applies to the thematic connections unobtrusively linking the ten sections of this one-movement piece.
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Evans, Ralph

String Quartet No. 1
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I. Moderato
00:06:52
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2.
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II. Andante espressivo
00:05:27
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III. Allegro scherzando
00:02:43
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Glass, Philip

String Quartet No. 2, "Company"
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I. quarter note = 96
00:02:47
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5.
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II. quarter note = 160
00:01:49
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III. quarter note = 96
00:01:49
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IV. quarter note = 160
00:02:26
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Antheil, George

String Quartet No. 3
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I. Allegretto
00:05:31
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II. Largo
00:05:40
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III. Quasi presto (scherzo)
00:02:21
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IV. Allegro giocoso
00:04:44
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Herrmann, Bernard

Echoes
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Echoes
00:20:17
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Total Playing Time:
01:02:26
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