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RUBBRA, E.: String Quartet No. 2 / Amoretti / Ave Maria Gratia Plena / Piano Trio in 1 Movement (C. Daniels, Roscoe, Maggini Quartet)

Composer(s):Rubbra, Edmund
Artist(s) Maggini Quartet, Ensemble • Roscoe, Martin, piano • Daniels, Charles, tenor
Period(s) 20th Century
Genre Classical Music
Category Chamber Music • Vocal
Catalogue 8.572286
Label Naxos
Quality   320kbps
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The English composer Edmund Rubbra described the string quartet as ‘the purest and most lucid texture available to a composer’, his essays in the form enlivened by Beethovenian vigour and song-like beauty. It is a testament to his profound compositional craftsmanship that even when deploying diverse rhythms simultaneously or releasing the latent potential of what he called the ‘most positive yet mysterious intervals’, Rubbra weaves fascinating musical textures into a satisfying whole. His Piano Trio No. 1 foregoes mere virtuosity for spiritual intensity, while several songs show his sensitivity in setting Medieval and Renaissance texts.


   




Review By Michael Scott Rohan,BBC Music Magazine,October 2012

‘There’s plenty of atmosphere…in a notably vivid, spacious recording, from which an elegant Un Bal movement especially gains…excellent playing and recording still gives this disc a respectable place in a crowded market.’ © 2012 BBC Music Magazine



Review By Geoffrey Norris,Gramophone,October 2012

‘Leonard Slatkin’s new post as music director of the orchestra National de Lyon yields up this polished performance of Berlioz’s hallucinatory masterpiece, preceded by a suitably dashing Le Corsaire overture as curtain raiser… one of [the disc’s] admirable qualities is the lucidity of playing that responds well to the particular palette of sonorities that Berlioz envisaged.’ © 2012 Gramophone



Review By Robert Matthew-Walker,International Record Review,January 2012

RUBBRA, E.: String Quartets Nos. 1, 3 and 4 (Maggini Quartet) 8.572555
RUBBRA, E.: String Quartet No. 2 / Amoretti / Ave Maria Gratia Plena / Piano Trio in 1 Movement (C. Daniels, Roscoe, Maggini Quartet) 8.572286

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