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Doric String Quartet

Founded in 1998 at Pro Corda, Suffolk, the multi-award-winning Doric String Quartet describes recording Britten’s quartets as a significant milestone: ‘In our recording we have endeavoured to tread a line that brings out the humanity in these works but also recognises the need for distance and fragility. This is very personal and intimate music, yet also world-encompassing and timeless.’ The Quartet continues: ‘Another feature of this recording is that Helene Clement, our violist, is playing on Benjamin Britten’s own viola. This instrument (on loan from the Britten-Pears Foundation) was made in 1843 in Milan by Francesco Guissani. It was previously owned by the composer Frank Bridge who gave it to Britten, as a departure gift when Britten and Pears set sail for the USA in 1939.’ Helene Clement writes: ‘To be able to explore the music of Britten with the very sound that the composer had in his ears is the greatest honour and joy I could have imagined.’

CD 1
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
String Quartet No.1, Op.25 (1941) 26:22
in D major
To Mrs Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge
1 .I Andante sostenuto (Tempo I) - Allegro vivo (Tempo II) - Tempo I (Andante) - Tempo II (Allegro) - 9:05
2. II  Allegretto con slancio 2:55
3. III Andante calmo - Poco animato - A tempo tranquillo 10:28
4. IV Molto vivace - Con anima 3:40

Three Divertimenti (1933-36) 9:58
for String Quartet
5. I March. Allegro maestoso - Marciando - Con slancio - Avanti! - Maestoso 3:36
6. II Waltz. Allegretto (molto rubato sempre) - Agitato - Con fuoco 2:58
7. III Burlesque. To Francis Barton - Presto - Con brio - Pesante - Animato - 3:18

Sempre in tempo - Prestissimo
String Quartet No.3, Op.94 (1975) 27:23
To Hans Keller
8.1 Duets. With moderate movement - Quietly - Very quietly 5:38
9.2 Ostinato. Very fast 3:11
10.3 Solo. Very calm - Lively - [As before] 6:01
11.4 Burlesque. Fast, con fuoco - Quasi 'Trio' - ('Maggiore') 2:16
12.5 Recitative and Passacaglia (La Serenissima). Slow - Slowly moving 10:01

Total time: 47:52
 
CD 2
HENRY PURCELL
Fantasias (1680) 17:00
in Four Parts
1. VI Fantasia, Z 737 (14 June 1680). [ ] - Slow - Quick - Slow 3:27
2. VII Fantasia, Z 738 (19 June 1680)3:29
3. VIII Fantasia, Z 739 (19/22 June 1680). [ ] - Brisk - Slow 3:41
4. IX Fantasia, Z 740 (23 June 1680). [ ] - Quick 2:55
5. X Fantasia, Z 741 (30 June 1680). [ ] - Slow - Quick 3:27

BENJAMIN BRITTEN
String Quartet No.2, Op.36 (1945) 30:41
in C major
For Mrs J.L. Behrend
6. I Allegro calmo senza rigore - Animato - Sempre con moto - Energico - 8:13
7. II Vivace 3:23
8. III Chacony. Sostenuto - Cadenza, ad libitum [cello] - 18:56

Total time: 47:52