Beethoven / Kreutzer Quartet David Matthews: Complete String Quartets 4 CD

The American critic Robert Reilly described the music on Volume One of this cycle of the complete string quartets of David Matthews (b. 1943) as 'some of the most concentrated, penetrating writing for this medium in the past 30 years or more. It is musical thinking of the highest order and quartet writing in the great tradition of Beethoven, Bart?k, Britten, and Tippett'. This fourth CD in the series presents Matthews' String Quartet No. 11, a set of variations on the eighth of Beethoven's Op. 119 Bagatelles, his own contribution to the 'Diabelli' Variations and his complete Beethoven transcriptions for string quartet.

1. 1. Allegretto 2. 2. Andante Con Moto 3. 3. a L'allemande 4. 4. Andante Cantabile 5. 5. Risoluto 6. 6. Andante - Allegretto 7. 7. Allegro, Ma Non Troppo 8. 8. Moderato Cantabile 9. 9. Vivace Moderato 10. 10. Allegramente 11. 11. Andante, Ma Non Troppo 12. Diabelli Variation 13. I. Etwas Lebhaft Und Mit Der Innigsten Empfindung 14. II. Lebhaft. Marschmassig 15. III. Langsam Und Sehnsuchtsvoll 16. IV. Geschwind, Doch Nicht Zu Sehr Und Mit Entschlossenheit 17. II. Adagio Con Molta Espressione 18. Theme: Allegretto Cantabile 19. Var. 1: L'istesso Tempo 20. Var. 2: Poco Piu Moderato 21. Var. 3: Presto 22. Var. 4: Allegro Strepitoso 23. Var. 5: Tempo Di Tango Feroce 24. Var. 6: Con Moto Languido 25. Var. 7: Misterioso 26. Var. 8: Tempo Di Mazurka 27. Var. 9: Scorrevole 28. Var. 10: Sostenuto 29. Var. 11: Quieto 30. Var. 12: Cavatina: Adagio 31. Var. 13: Fuga: Molto Vivace 32. Var. 13: Fuga: Andante Tranquillo 33. Var. 13: Fuga: Tempo Primo