John Ramsay - String Quartets 1-4
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Label: Metier
Cat No: MSV28528
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 9th April 2012
Contents
Works
String Quartet no.1 in D minorString Quartet no.2 in E minor 'Shackleton'
String Quartet no.3 in C major
String Quartet no.4 'Charles Darwin'
Artists
Fitzwilliam String QuartetWorks
String Quartet no.1 in D minorString Quartet no.2 in E minor 'Shackleton'
String Quartet no.3 in C major
String Quartet no.4 'Charles Darwin'
Artists
Fitzwilliam String QuartetAbout
The Fitzwilliam’s friendship with Prof Ramsay dates back to his daughter Alison’s violin lessons with Jonathan Sparey, when the group was Quartet-in-Residence at the University of York. More recently, the Fitzwilliam were deeply honoured to be chosen to perform the newly commissioned Quartet No.4 at the Darwin Festival in Cambridge during the bi-centenary celebrations, and subsequently to include this on the current CD of the complete (to date) Ramsay Quartets, in celebration of the composer’s 80th birthday.
They are one of the few string quartets in the world using Classical instruments for the appropriate repertoire, and perhaps unique in that they perform on both historical and modern set-ups (sometimes within the same concert).
In November 2010 their second violinist, Jonathan Sparey, decided to retire after 37 years in the quartet, and the present CD includes the FSQ’s first recordings with his young successor Colin Scobie. Indeed, this collection happily spans the actual handover, with Jonathan playing in Quartets 1 and 4, and Colin in Nos 2 and 3.
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