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CDA66127


Recording details: March 1984
Art Workers Guild, Queen Square, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Robert Simpson
Engineered by Antony Howell
Release date: October 1989
Total duration: 57 minutes 34 seconds

‘One of the most extraordinary quartets ever written. No less superb is the playing of the Delmé Quartet whose remarkable dedication and musical skill is faultless’ (The Morning Star)

'A marvellous work of our time' (The Daily Telegraph)

‘A ceaseless torrent, or stream, of pure invention; and if you ask me how that can be – a torrent which 32 times reverses direction and then flows backwards – I can only reply that this is one of the many mysteries of our mysterious musical world, and that it is so’ (The Sunday Times)

'The Delme Quartet … have the utmost cause for self-congratulation on this virtually faultless committal of their titanic progeny to disc' (Tempo)

'I cannot recommend this issue too highly' (Gramophone)

'An amazing achievement' (Fanfare)

Robert Simpson (1921-1997)
String Quartet No. 9
Delmé Quartet
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String Quartet No 9
1
No 01. Thema: Tempo di minuetto  [1'13]
2
No 02. Variation 1: L'istesso tempo  [1'19]
3
No 03. Variation 2: Meno mosso, poco espressivo  [2'15]
4
No 04. Variation 3: Poco pił mosso  [1'32]
5
No 05. Variation 4: Poco pił mosso  [1'19]
6
No 06. Variation 5: Molto allegro  [1'11]
7
No 07. Variation 6: L'istesso tempo  [1'07]
8
No 08. Variation 7: [no tempo marking]  [1'54]
9
No 09. Variation 8: Allegro molto  [0'49]
10
No 10. Variation 9: L'istesso tempo  [1'04]
11
No 11. Variation 10: L'istesso tempo  [0'24]
12
No 12. Variation 11: [no tempo marking]  [0'24]
13
No 13. Variation 12: [no tempo marking]  [0'23]
14
No 14. Variation 13: [no tempo marking]  [0'24]
15
No 15. Variation 14: L'istesso tempo  [1'09]
16
No 16. Variation 15: Lento  [3'08]
17
No 17. Variation 16: L'istesson tempo  [2'46]
18
No 18. Variation 17: Presto  [0'44]
19
No 19. Variation 18: [no tempo marking]  [0'44]
20
No 20. Variation 19: [no tempo marking]  [0'46]
21
No 21. Variation 20: Feroce  [0'58]
22
No 22. Variation 21: Adagio  [4'09]
23
No 23. Variation 22: Allegro  [0'59]
24
No 24. Variation 23: Poco meno mosso  [0'42]
25
No 25. Variation 24: Meno  [0'45]
26
No 26. Variation 25: Allegro molto vivace  [1'05]
27
No 27. Variation 26: Allegretto  [1'17]
28
No 28. Variation 27: L'istesso tempo  [2'25]
29
No 29. Variation 28: Prestissimo  [0'47]
30
No 30. Variation 29: Vivace  [1'21]
31
No 31. Variation 30: Largo  [1'18]
32
No 32. Variation 31: L'istesso tempo  [1'25]
33
No 33. Variation 32: Adagissimo  [2'53]
34
No 34. Finale: Fuga  [12'55]