Fricker / Villiers Quartet String Quartets CD

Benefitting from the afterglow of the 1949 Koussevitzky Prize for his First Symphony, Peter Racine Fricker's original and striking First Quartet was premiered later that year to international acclaim. The Second Quartet shares a formal clarity and kinship with the tonality heard in the First, but evolving in range, technique and eloquence of expression. The symmetrical Third Quartet with it's intricate variations is finely crafted in the serial style of Fricker's later music.

1. I. Adagio Appassionato - Con Brio - Meno Mosso - Adagio Ma Liberamente - Con Brio - Meno Mosso Tranquillamente - Vivo 2. I. Inquieto Allegro 3. II. Molto Allegro 4. III. Adagio 5. I. Presto - Poco Meno Mosso 6. II. Allegro Feroce 7. III. Adagio 8. IV. Allegro Inquieto 9. V. Presto - Variations 1-8 - Coda Piu Presto 10. I. Adagio 11. II. Scherzo (Allegro)