Birtwistle: Complete String Quartets
Label: AEON Catalog: AE1217 Format: CD Arditti Quartet: Irvine Arditti, violin; Ashot Sarkissjan, violin; Ralf Ehlers, viola; Lucas Fels, celloHarrison Birtwistle Harrison Birtwistle is unquestionably one of the most frequently performed British composers on the contemporary scene. Although bowed strings are the raison d'ĂȘtre of this disc, their absence is no less conspicuous in the composer's early and mature works, for he waited until he was nearly 60 before writing for string quartet, strictly speaking, and the works brought together here remain, up to the present day, his Price: $27.98 |