Tower: String Quartets Nos. 3, 4 & 5 / Dumbarton Quintet

 
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JOAN TOWER
Tower: String Quartets Nos. 3, 4 & 5 / Dumbarton Quintet
Miami String Quartet / Daedalus Quartet

[ Naxos American Classics / CD ]

Release Date: Friday 10 June 2016

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Widely regarded as one of America's pre-eminent living composers, Joan Tower, who is also a pianist, is particularly devoted to chamber music. Organic structures underpin her string quartets - there is 'heat from within' and radiance of texture in Incandescent, her third quartet, virtuosic interplay in the fourth, Angels, and fluid connections in White Water, her fifth quartet. Tower is only the third composer - after Stravinsky and Copland - to be commissioned by the Dumbarton Oaks Foundation, and her Dumbarton Quintet pursues xtremes of moods both consonant and dissonant.

"This disc of fairly recent chamber works by one of the most prominent American composers (b1938)...makes a vivid case for the timeless relevance of the thoroughly well argued in music...Shostakovich's influence on the Dumbarton (piano) Quintet is profoundly absorbed." (Sunday Times)

Tracks:

String Quartet No. 3
String Quartet No. 4
String Quartet No. 5
Dumbarton Quintet