Michael Tippett: The String Quartets (Nos. 1-4) - The Britten Quartet

1. String Quartet No.1
Composed by Michael Tippett
with Britten String Quartet , Peter Lale , Keith Pascoe , Andrew Schulman
Conducted by Peter Manning

2. String Quartet No.2
Composed by Michael Tippett
with Britten String Quartet , Peter Lale , Keith Pascoe , Andrew Schulman
Conducted by Peter Manning

3. String Quartet No.3
Composed by Michael Tippett
with Britten String Quartet , Peter Lale , Keith Pascoe , Andrew Schulman
Conducted by Peter Manning

4. String Quartet No.4
Composed by Michael Tippett
with Britten String Quartet , Peter Lale , Keith Pascoe , Andrew Schulman
Conducted by Peter Manning

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Tippett: The 5 String Quartets Manufacturer: Asv Living Era ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Quartets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Tippett | Tippett, Michael | ( T ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Lindsay String Quartet | ( L ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Similar Items: Tippett: Symphonies Rawsthorne: String Quartets ASIN: B0000030PN Release Date: 1996-03-19

Tracks:

1. Str Qt No.1 in A: First Movt: Allegro
2. Str Qt No.1 in A: Second Movt: Lento Cantabile
3. Str Qt No.1 in A: Third Movt: Allegro Assai
4. Str Qt No.2 in F #: First Movt: Allegro Grazioso
5. Str Qt No.2 in F #: Second Movt: Andante
6. Str Qt No.2 in F #: Third Movt: Presto
7. Str Qt No.2 in F #: Fourth Movt: Allegro Appassionato
8. Str Qt No.3: First Movt: Grave E Sostenuto-Allegro Moderato
9. Str Qt No.3: Second Movt: Andante
10. Str Qt No.3: Third Movt: Allegro Molto E Con Brio
11. Str Qt No.3: Fourth Movt: Lento
12. Str Qt No.3: Fifth Movt: Allegro Comodo

Tracks:

1. Str Qt No.4 (World Premiere Recording): First Movt: Molto Legato
2. Str Qt No.4 (World Premiere Recording): Second Movt: Fast-
3. Str Qt No.4 (World Premiere Recording): Third Movt: Moderately Slow-
4. Str Qt No.4 (World Premiere Recording): Fourth Movt: Very Fast
5. Str Qt No.5 (World Premiere Recording): First Movt: Medium Fast-Very Fast
6. Str Qt No.5 (World Premiere Recording): Second Movt: Slow-Medium Fast

Average customer rating: Great performances of some mostly great music

Tippett: Piano Sonatas 1-3; String Quartets 1-3; Fantasia Concertante; etc. Manufacturer: Decca ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Quartets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Tippett | Tippett, Michael | ( T ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Concertinos | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Fantasies | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Sonatas | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Suites | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Sonatas | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Symphonies | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music Modern & 20th Century | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Brass | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Choruses | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music The Decca Records Store | Specialty Stores | Music Similar Items: Britten Conducts Britten Britten Conducts Britten: Operas 1 Britten Conducts Britten Ture Rangström: Complete Symphonies (Box Set) Dukas: Piano Sonata; Decaux; Clairs de Lune ASIN: B0009A41W4 Release Date: 2006-03-08

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Great performances of some mostly great music.......2006-01-01

The late Michael Tippett (1905-1998) had one of the most instantly recognisable musical voices of the twentieth century. Although his stylistic concerns may have shifted radically from the radiant, tonally-inflected lyricism of the Concerto for Double String Orchestra to the thorny and ascetic Concerto for Orchestra (and the opera King Priam), the intense and passionate vein of ecstatic musical lines never left his music. This box set collects most of his major orchestral works (with the unfortunate exception of The Rose Lake), and the first three of his piano sonatas and string quartets. Firstly, the performances are universally excellent (all the artists being long associated with Tippett's music). Mention must be made of Sir Marriner's passionate and wonderfully- nuanced reading of the always enjoyable Fantasia Concertante, and Colin Davis' energetic and joyous interpretations of the first three symphonies. He makes the diffuse and poorly- constructed Third Symphony seem more logical than the only rival recording- Hickox on Chandos. Heather Harper, whilst no Blues singer, gives a valiant effort to articulate Tippett's frankly vulgar Blues songs, interpolated between quotes from Beethoven's 9th. Solti's recording of the 4th symphony is everything you'd expect from CSO in the late seventies: power, virtuosity and that famous sheen that obviously inspired Tippett to write the work for them. Unfortunately, the "breathing effect" is a disastrous failure, sounding like a dying bronchitis patient, rather than the "gently breathing" sounds presumably intended by the composer. The first three Piano Sonatas are played beautifully by Paul Crossley, making the most elegant case possible for the average first and second sonatas. The third, truly a great work, is given an electric reading. The string quartets, played by the Lindsay Quartet are also given dynamic, thoughtful performances, the second and third quartets containing some of Tippett's most inspired counterpoint.
All in all, a set well worth investigating, if you do not have any orchestral/instrumental Tippett in your collection, though not every work on here is of the highest compositional quality.

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Michael Tippett: The String Quartets (Nos. 1-4) - The Britten Quartet Michael Tippett , and The Britten Quartet Manufacturer: Collins Classics ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Quartets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Tippett | Tippett, Michael | ( T ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music ASIN: B000003W15 Release Date: 1993-08-23

Tracks:

1. I Allegro Appassionato
2. II Lento Cantabile
3. III Allegro Assai
4. I Allegro Grazioso
5. II Andante
6. III Presto
7. IV Allegro Appassionato

Tracks:

1. I Grave E Sostenuto
2. II Andante
3. III Allegro Molto E Con Brio
4. IV Lento
5. V Allegro Comodo
6. No. 1 Molto Legato
7. No. 2 Fast
8. No. 3 Moderately Slow
9. No. 4 Very Fast

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Great Britain Quartets Manufacturer: Collins Classics ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Quartets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Britten | Britten, Sir Benjamin | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Elgar | Elgar, Sir Edward | ( E ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Tippett | Tippett, Michael | ( T ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Walton | Walton, Sir William | ( W ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Symphonies | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music Modern & 20th Century | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Classical | Box Sets | Stores | Music ASIN: B000003W1A Release Date: 1993-08-23

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Tippett: String Quartets No.1, No.2 and No.4 Manufacturer: Chandos ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Quartets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Tippett | Tippett, Michael | ( T ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music ASIN: B000000B1N Release Date: 1997-10-21

Tracks:

1. Str Qt No.1: I. Allegro appassionato
2. Str Qt No.1: II. Lento cantabile -
3. Str Qt No.1: III. Allegro assai
4. Str Qt No.2: I. Allegro grazioso
5. Str Qt No.2: II. Andante
6. Str Qt No.2: III. Presto
7. Str Qt No.2: IV. Allegro appassionato
8. Str Qt No.3: 1. Molto legato
9. Str Qt No.3: 2. Fast - Adagio: Come prima - Allegro
10. Str Qt No.3: 3. Moderately slow -
11. Str Qt No.3: 4. Very fast - moderately slow - very fast

Track Listings:

1. Musiques D'Espagne
2. MUSSORGSKY : Boris Godunov - Nesterenko / Atlantov / Obratsova
3. New American Piano Music
4. Newman: New Music
5. O Bone Jesu / Mass: Dum Sacrum Mysterium
6. Paul Hindemith: Complete String Quartets, Vol. 1 (No. 1, Op. 2 & No. 5, Op. 32) - Sonare Quartett
7. Paul Hindemith: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1
8. Paul Hindemith: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2
9. Paul Hindemith: Orchestral Works, Vol. 5
10. Peter Maxwell Davies: Symphony No. 3

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Playpower [Import]

Sleigh Ride: Classic Carols for Christmas

Speed of Love

Music: Meet Me in St. Louis [Cast Recording]

The Creeping Unknown

Tasty [Explicit Lyrics]

Songs Children Love to Sing

The Best Of Brahms

Something Auld, Something Newgrass, Something Borrowed, Something Bluegrass

Picando Alante

The Buffalo Skinners [Import] [Original recording remastered]

Song for Me [Import]

So Far... [Import]

Dog Gone Classical Music: Mozart

In the Flesh Live