SIR Michael Morpurgo, Tippett Quartet – Noah Max: String Quartets Nos. 1-4 (2025) [FLAC 24bit/192kHz]

SIR Michael Morpurgo, Tippett Quartet – Noah Max: String Quartets Nos. 1-4 (2025)
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It is remarkable not only that the London-based Noah Max (b. 1998) should have composed four string quartets by his mid-twenties; their stylistic range is also surprisingly wide. No. 1, which sets Jean Giono’s story ‘The Man who Planted Trees’, narrated here by Sir Michael Morpurgo, has distant roots in English pastoralism, but the refracted lines, furtive colours and ecstatic textures of Nos. 2 and 3 are much closer to European modernism, with echoes of Kurtág and Ligeti. No. 4 is a wild ride, its manic, swirling rhythms interrupted by passages of whispered intimacy that eventually draw it into silence.

Tracklist:

1-01. Tippett Quartet – String Quartet No. 1, Op. 25 “The Man Who Planted Trees”: I. Andante desolato (10:10)
1-02. Tippett Quartet – String Quartet No. 1, Op. 25 “The Man Who Planted Trees”: II. Maestoso. Expansive (08:04)
1-03. Tippett Quartet – String Quartet No. 1, Op. 25 “The Man Who Planted Trees”: III. Vivo (06:12)
1-04. Tippett Quartet – String Quartet No. 3, Op. 41 (10:44)
1-05. Tippett Quartet – String Quartet No. 4, Op. 45 (15:37)
1-06. Tippett Quartet – String Quartet No. 2, Op. 37: I. Andante glaciale (06:02)
1-07. Tippett Quartet – String Quartet No. 2, Op. 37: II. Intensamente con ira (08:11)
1-08. Tippett Quartet – String Quartet No. 2, Op. 37: III. Unearthly, Mesmeric (03:43)

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