Clive Osgood: Chamber Works Tippett Quartet

• Clive Osgood (b. 1977): String quartet in A minor:
• 1 Osgood: String quartet in A minor: Allegro vivace 04:53
• 2 Osgood: String quartet in A minor: Adagio 03:17
• 3 Osgood: String quartet in A minor: Allegro moderato 04:23
• Piano Quartet in C:
• 4 Osgood: Piano Quartet in C: Prelude 02:09
• 5 Osgood: Piano Quartet in C: Menuetto 03:20
• 6 Osgood: Piano Quartet in C: Sarabande 06:16
• 7 Osgood: Piano Quartet in C: Gigue 01:37
• Incidental music from A Midsummer Night’s Dream:
• 8 Osgood: Incidental music from A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Overture 01:48
• 9 Osgood: Incidental music from A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Nocturne 02:45
• 10 Osgood: Incidental music from A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Bergamask 01:11
• Piano Trio in G:
• 11 Osgood: Piano Trio in G: Allegro giocoso 05:04
• 12 Osgood: Piano Trio in G: Romanza 04:54
• 13 Osgood: Piano Trio in G: Finale 03:59
• Sonata for Flute, Violin, Cello and Piano:
• 14 Osgood: Sonata for Flute, Violin, Cello and Piano 05:50
• Tresillo for piano quintet:
• 15 Osgood: Tresillo for piano quintet 04:30
• Cello Sonata in C:
• 16 Osgood: Cello Sonata in C: Allegro 03:55
• 17 Osgood: Cello Sonata in C: Lento tranquillo 05:27
• 18 Osgood: Cello Sonata in C: Allegro vivace 03:47
• Flute Sonata:
• 19 Osgood: Flute Sonata: Allegro spirito 02:24
• 20 Osgood: Flute Sonata: Andante cantabile 04:44
• 21 Osgood: Flute Sonata: Con moto 02:25
• Total Runtime 01:18:38

Info for Clive Osgood: Chamber Works

Discover this album of Clive Osgood‘s chamber works, a fusion of the compositional frameworks of great 18th-century chamber music and contemporary musical ideas and styles, performed by Tippett Quartet.

"These pieces, based largely on the compositional frameworks of great 18th-century chamber music including the string quartet and piano trio, have also been inspired by my love of more recent musical ideas and styles. My ideal is a fusion of old and new, where the music is both grounded in a definable structure and given the melodic, rhythmic and harmonic freedom to appeal to a broad spectrum of performers and listeners - I enjoy the challenge of fusing ideas and styles together into something that is both approachable and accessible. It's not about creating something entirely new, but about finding and sharing a voice that has become so much a part of me, and of my musical journey." (Clive Osgood)

Tippett Quartet:
Bozidar Vukotic, cello
Jeremy Isaac, violin
John Mills, violin
Lisa Friend, flute
Lydia Lowndes-Northcott, viola
Lynn Arnold, piano

Tippett Quartet
For over a decade and a half, the celebrated Tippett Quartet has delighted critics and audiences alike with its animated, virtuosic performances and it’s inspired and attractive programming. They have performed at the BBC Proms, Cheltenham Festival, Snape Proms and numerous festivals throughout the UK and abroad, including tours of Europe, Canada and Mexico. The quartet regularly appears at Kings Place, Purcell Room, Wigmore Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall and Bridgewater Hall and frequently performs on BBC Radio 3. Alongside a busy touring schedule, the Tippett Quartet pursues a keen interest in educational work with both schools and universities and was Ensemble in Residence at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University for 2012-13. In September 2015 they began an exciting new residency at Royal Holloway University, London.

Their broad and diverse repertoire highlights the Tippett Quartet’s unique versatility. They are equally at home with the giants of the classical world as they are with great Hollywood composers. Their impressive catalogue of over twenty releases have not only topped the classical charts but have also entered the pop charts and received universal critical acclaim. They have recorded for Naxos, EMI Classics, Signum, Classic FM, Guild, Real World, Dutton Epoch and Tocatta Classics. The quartet has given numerous world and UK premieres including works by John Adams, Howard Goodall and Stephen Dodgson. 2013 saw them rediscover Gustav Holst’s Fantasy on British Folk Songs which, with the help of the eminent musicologist Roderick Swanston, they were able to complete and give a world premiere on BBC Radio 3. They have also worked with Peter Maxwell-Davies for a performance of his 9th Quartet at the South Bank, with Anthony Payne on his Quartet No.1 for a live BBC broadcast from Spitalfields Festival, and Hugh Wood on his String Quartet No.3 at the Presteigne Festival.

They have had the great pleasure of collaborating with inspirational soloists such as Kathryn Stott, Craig Ogden, Stephanie Gonley, Lawrence Power, Melvin Tan, Nick Van Bloss, Julian Bliss and Ashley Wass. In 2011 they celebrated the anniversary of the iconic film composer Bernard Herrmann by commissioning an arrangement of Psycho and performing it alongside his clarinet quintet Souvenir de Voyages and Echoes in a series of concerts and radio broadcasts. They had the great pleasure of collaborating with Herrmann’s widow Norma Herrmann on many occasions.

The Tippett Quartet have also performed with the Royal Ballet at Covent Garden and have premiered a newly written film score for Alfred Hitchcock’s 1927 silent film classic The Lodger. In 2014 they started a collaboration with some of the UK’s finest Jazz musicians with the launch of their ‘Close To You’ project – a tribute to the album that Frank Sinatra made with the Hollywood String Quartet. In 2015 they are now continuing this collaboration with “Hollywood Romance” featuring singer and broadcaster Claire Martin OBE.

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