℗ 2017 Naxos
| Released | February 10, 2017 |
| Duration | 1h 10m 24s |
| Record Label | Naxos |
| Genre | Classical (Chamber) |
Peter Racine Fricker: The String Quartets
Villiers Quartet
Available in 88.2 kHz / 24-bit AIFF, FLAC high resolution audio formats
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1.1
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String Quartet No. 1, Op. 8
Peter Racine Fricker; Villiers Quartet |
15:16 | |||
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String Quartet No. 2, Op. 20, F. 46
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1.2
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I. Inquieto allegro
Peter Racine Fricker; Villiers Quartet |
10:10 | |||
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1.3
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II. Molto allegro
Peter Racine Fricker; Villiers Quartet |
5:26 | |||
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1.4
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III. Adagio
Peter Racine Fricker; Villiers Quartet |
7:32 | |||
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String Quartet No. 3, Op. 73, F. 152
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1.5
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I. Presto - Poco meno mosso
Peter Racine Fricker; Villiers Quartet |
5:12 | |||
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1.6
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II. Allegro feroce
Peter Racine Fricker; Villiers Quartet |
1:55 | |||
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1.7
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III. Adagio
Peter Racine Fricker; Villiers Quartet |
4:27 | |||
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1.8
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IV. Allegro inquieto
Peter Racine Fricker; Villiers Quartet |
2:10 | |||
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1.9
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V. Presto - Variations 1-8 - Coda più presto
Peter Racine Fricker; Villiers Quartet |
8:38 | |||
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Adagio & Scherzo
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1.10
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Adagio
Peter Racine Fricker; Villiers Quartet |
5:02 | |||
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1.11
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Scherzo. Allegro
Peter Racine Fricker; Villiers Quartet |
4:36 | |||
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Digital Booklet
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The award-winning Villiers Quartet presents world premieres of three chamber works by British composer Peter Racine Fricker, whose music has been undergoing something of a gradual renaissance after many years in the wilderness. Benefitting from the afterglow of the 1949 Koussevitzky Prize for his First Symphony, Fricker’s original and striking First Quartet was premiered later that same year to international acclaim. The Second Quartet shares a formal clarity and kinship with the tonality heard in the First, but evolving in range, technique and eloquence of expression. The symmetrical Third Quartet with its intricate variations is finely crafted in the serial style of Fricker’s later music. The programme is capped off with the Adagio and Scherzo, the earliest piece here.
88.2 kHz / 24-bit PCM – Naxos Studio Masters
Recorded at the Church of St John the Evangelist, Upper Norwood, London, UK, October 15 and 16, 2015 (track 1), July 16, 2016 (tracks 2 - 4, 10 - 11) and January 6, 2016 (tracks 5 - 9) Producer, engineer and editor: Michael Whight Publishers: Schott Music Ltd. (tracks 1 - 4), Composer MS (tracks 5 - 9), Composer MS (University of California Santa Barbara) (tracks 10 - 11) Booklet notes: Christopher Husted Cover photo: Peter Racine Fricker, c. 1955
Recorded at the Church of St John the Evangelist, Upper Norwood, London, UK, October 15 and 16, 2015 (track 1), July 16, 2016 (tracks 2 - 4, 10 - 11) and January 6, 2016 (tracks 5 - 9) Producer, engineer and editor: Michael Whight Publishers: Schott Music Ltd. (tracks 1 - 4), Composer MS (tracks 5 - 9), Composer MS (University of California Santa Barbara) (tracks 10 - 11) Booklet notes: Christopher Husted Cover photo: Peter Racine Fricker, c. 1955
| Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -6.22 -9.32 to -2.32 | -30.31 -33.66 to -26.73 | -26.25 -29.00 to -22.40 | 15 13 to 16 | |
| 1 | String Quartet No. 1, Op. 8 | -2.53 | -27.54 | -23.0 | 15 |
| 2 | I. Inquieto allegro | -8.14 | -31.39 | -27.6 | 15 |
| 3 | II. Molto allegro | -9.32 | -32.55 | -28.9 | 15 |
| 4 | III. Adagio | -7.92 | -33.21 | -28.9 | 16 |
| 5 | I. Presto - Poco meno mosso | -4.69 | -29.03 | -25.4 | 15 |
| 6 | II. Allegro feroce | -4.17 | -27.38 | -24.2 | 16 |
| 7 | III. Adagio | -8.26 | -32.83 | -28.2 | 15 |
| 8 | IV. Allegro inquieto | -4.54 | -27.38 | -22.4 | 13 |
| 9 | V. Presto - Variations 1-8 - Coda più presto | -2.32 | -26.73 | -23.0 | 16 |
| 10 | Adagio | -8.92 | -33.66 | -29.0 | 15 |
| 11 | Scherzo. Allegro | -7.61 | -31.75 | -28.2 | 14 |