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Complete String Quartets
Jeremy Painter, Delme String Quartet
Complete String Quartets
Genre: Classical
 
  •  Track Listings (12) - Disc #1
  •  Track Listings (18) - Disc #2


     
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All Artists: Jeremy Painter, Delme String Quartet
Title: Complete String Quartets
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Chandos
Release Date: 5/20/1997
Genre: Classical
Styles: Chamber Music, Symphonies
Number of Discs: 2
SwapaCD Credits: 2
UPC: 095115953525
 

CD Reviews

JUGGERNAUTS OF JONES
Melvyn M. Sobel | Freeport (Long Island), New York | 01/31/2003
(5 out of 5 stars)

"Impressive and ultimately accessible 20th Century quartets by Welsh composer Daniel Jones (1912-1993) performed with absolute grip and certainty by the Delme ensemble. What is most remarkable in Jones is the wide dispersion of his musical intellect. The seemingly natural variety of his compositional thinking and the depth of his concentration are staggering. And perhaps this is the best way to describe these eight works: complex "concentrations." While not paralleling contemporary downlanders like Bax, Bridge or Simpson, yet venturing much further than the prototypes of Prokofiev, Shostakovich or Bartok, but eschewing the popular trend towards minimalism, Jones establishes his own unique, thought-provoking vocabulary, very much the way Beethoven did in his last quartets. These are overtly serious, emotional works, not particularly sunny in disposition, but not grim, either. The comparison with Beethoven holds true here, as well. Incidental tweaks of levity seem resigned nose thumbing at dubious fate, rather than attempts at humor. And, with both composers, there is a mystic ambience that threads through every quartet becoming integrally structural, disquieting and fascinating. [Running time--- CD 1: 64:13 CD 2: 74:54]"