Edward Cowie: 3 Quartets & a Solo Kreutzer Quartet

• Edward Cowie (b. 1943):
• 1 String Quartet No. 1 "Dungeness Nocturnes" 14:17
• 2 String Quartet No. 2 "Crystal Dances" 17:48
• 3 GAD 16:37
• String Quartet No. 6 "Three Portraits":
• 4 String Quartet No. 6 "Three Portraits": I. West Wind (Autumn) 06:46
• 5 String Quartet No. 6 "Three Portraits": II. North Wind (Winter) 05:02
• 6 String Quartet No. 6 "Three Portraits": III. East Wind (Spring) 05:36
• 7 String Quartet No. 6 "Three Portraits": IV. South Wind (Summer) 05:25
• Total Runtime 01:11:31

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Edward Cowie is one of the most individual and notable voices in contemporary music – which he sees as both conscious and unconscious sensitivity to sound. Highly inspired by Nature and our world, he works with sound, colour, order and disorder, shape, pattern and form which he sees a part of a grand unification of sensual input. As an acclaimed and successful visual artist, he creates drawings to visualise his subject matter before composing. His music is not however ‘filmic’ or directly impressionistic but draws from the essence of nature, wildlife and the seasons to create his unique soundworld. The Kreutzer Quartet is one of the most accomplished and creative ensembles in the UK and is acclaimed for its adventurous programming of both the music of our time and the great quartet heritage of the past. It has been the recipient of works from many of today’s pre-eminent composers, and has performed around Europe as well as at its ‘home base’ of Wilton’s Music Hall in London. The quartet has recorded a substantial number of albums for Métier as well as Chandos, Naxos, NMC, Toccata and several other labels.

Kreutzer Quartet

The Kreutzer Quartet
has forged an enviable reputation as one of the Europe's most dynamic and innovative string quartets. They are the dedicatees of numerous works, and over many years have forged creative partnerships with composers including Sir Michael Tippett, David Matthews, Michael Finnissy, Judith Weir, and Haflidi Hallgrimsson. They have a particularly strong relationship to a cross-section of leading American composers, having collaborated intensively with George Rochberg in the last few years of his life, as long as working closely with figures as Elliott Schwartz, and the prolific symphonist Gloria Coates. As recording artists they have won critical acclaim for their discs on the Naxos, Metier, and Chandos labels. They are Artists in Association at Quartet at York University, and at Wiltons Music Hall. Their work in collaboration with art galleries has garnered much attention, and large audiences, particularly their annual residency at the Tate Gallery, St Ives.

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