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Britten: String Quartets Nos. 1-3; Three Divertimenti; Purcell: String Fantasias in Four Parts
Doric String Quartet
Britten: String Quartets Nos. 1-3; Three Divertimenti; Purcell: String Fantasias in Four Parts
Genre: Classical
 
Founded in 1998 at Pro Corda, Suffolk, the multi-award-winning Doric String Quartet describes recording Brittens quartets as a significant milestone: In our recording we have endeavoured to tread a line that brings out the...  more »

     
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Title: Britten: String Quartets Nos. 1-3; Three Divertimenti; Purcell: String Fantasias in Four Parts
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Label: Chandos
Release Date: 4/5/2019
Genre: Classical
Style: Chamber Music
Number of Discs: 2
SwapaCD Credits: 2
UPC: 095115212424

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Founded in 1998 at Pro Corda, Suffolk, the multi-award-winning Doric String Quartet describes recording Brittens quartets as a significant milestone: In our recording we have endeavoured to tread a line that brings out the humanity in these works but also recognises the need for distance and fragility. This is very personal and intimate music, yet also world-encompassing and timeless. The Quartet continues: Another feature of this recording is that Hélène Clément, our violist, is playing on Benjamin Brittens own viola. This instrument (on loan from the Britten-Pears Foundation) was made in 1843 in Milan by Francesco Guissani. It was previously owned by the composer Frank Bridge who gave it to Britten, as a departure gift when Britten and Pears set sail for the USA in 1939. Hélène Clément writes: To be able to explore the music of Britten with the very sound that the composer had in his ears is the greatest honour and joy I could have imagined.