Matthews: String Quartets Nos 5 & 12 – review

Kreutzer Quartet(Toccata Classics)Toccata Classics has already released one disc devoted to David Matthews's string quartets, on which the Kreutzer Quartet played the fourth, sixth and 10th. Now they add the fifth, dating from 1984, and the most recent to date, the 12th, which they premiered in February last year. Separated by more than 25 years, both works are finely crafted but differ radically in scale and formal plan – the Fifth Quartet is made up of three movements telescoped into a singl...

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