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  • Composer: Peter Maxwell Davies
  • Audio CD (27 Feb 2006)
  • SPARS Code: DDD
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Naxos
  • ASIN: B000EBEGVE
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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Listen  1. Naxos Quartet No. 5: I. Largo 8:19Album Only
Listen  2. Naxos Quartet No. 5: II. Lento12:24Album Only
Listen  3. Naxos Quartet No. 6: I. Allegro 6:12£0.69
Listen  4. Naxos Quartet No. 6: II. Allegro moderato: Dominica Tertia Adventus, Antiphona 2:09£0.69
Listen  5. Naxos Quartet No. 6: III. Presto 5:25£0.69
Listen  6. Naxos Quartet No. 6: IV. Adagio molto13:23Album Only
Listen  7. Naxos Quartet No. 6: V. Andante: In Die Nativitatis 3:08£0.69
Listen  8. Naxos Quartet No. 6: VI. Allegro 4:32£0.69

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5.0 out of 5 stars Back to Beethoven, 30 May 2007
By N. E. M. Goulder (Saffron Walden, England) - See all my reviews
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This is the third disc in the projected set of five dedicated to Maxwell "Mad Max" Davies' set of ten Naxos Quartets. As with the previous two discs, there's a wealth of invention on display from the composer, but first this time I'd like to pay a particular tribute to the Maggini. New music is never easy to project. Having Max on hand to talk through what the components of the music are designed to do must be a vast advantage, and it's clear that the Maggini have active input into the finished product, convincing Max to rewrite the parts they find unplayable. But the Maggini put themselves at the service of the music in a near-exemplary fashion. Time and again they embrace the culture of the writing and deliver a quality of sound that brings the music to seem wholly natural. We are indebted to them.
This of course can't be done if the composer isn't writing true quartet music. Both the two quartets here sit handsomely in the great tradition. The Fifth conjures up the atmosphere of twilight storms and mists off the Orkneys, its two-movement structure weighing heavily on some of Max's finest quartet writing in the second part. I slightly regret the contrasting sections of that movement, written in such a way as to make it almost impossible for the Maggini to pass this off as an integral part of the whole - there's a hint of the wild writing in say the central section of the Andantino of Schubert's D959 Sonata which (there as here) does not quite succeed. But it nonetheless serves to intensify one's appreciation of the stiller music.
The spirit of the Sixth is unashamedly drawn from Beethoven's late music, with the abrupt fast-slow-fast-slow contrasts of say op. 130 being instantly evoked by the design of the first movement, and the wider six-movement structure also drawing from the same work. But why not ? Was what Beethoven achieved so shattering that nobody else should dare approach the Propylaea of its Parthenon ?
I trust you'll enjoy this music as I have.
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