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Compact Disc CDA66127

£13.99

Recorded on 15, 16 March 1984
Recording Engineer
ANTONY HOWELL
Recording Producer
ROBERT SIMPSON
Design
TERRY SHANNON
Executive Producers
JOHN BROOKS
EDWARD PERRY
© Hyperion Records Ltd, London, MCMLXXXIV

Duration: 57'49
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Contents:

    STRING QUARTET NO 9 (1982)
    (32 Variations and Fugue on a theme of Haydn)
  1. Thema (Tempo di minuetto) [1'13]
  2. Variation l (L'istesso tempo) [1'19]
  3. Variation II (Meno mosso, poco espressivo) [2'15]
  4. Variation lIl (Poco piu mosso) [1'32]
  5. Variation IV (Poco piu mosso) [1'19]
  6. Variation V (Molto allegro) [1'11]
  7. Variation Vl (L'istesso tempo) [1'07]
  8. Variation Vll [1'54]
  9. Variation VlIl (Allegro molto) [0'49]
  10. Variation IX (L'istesso tempo) [1'04]
  11. Variation X (L'istesso tempo) [0'24]
  12. Variation Xl [0'24]
  13. Variation Xll [0'23]
  14. Variation XlII [0'24]
  15. Variation XIV (L'istesso tempo) [1'09]
  16. Variation XV (Lento) [3'08]
  17. Variation XVI (L'istesso tempo) [2'46]
  18. Variation XVII (Presto) [0'44]
  19. Variation XVIII [0'44]
  20. Variation XIX [0'46]
  21. Variation XX (Feroce) [0'58]
  22. Variation XXI (Adagio) [4'09]
  23. Variation XXII (Allegro) [0'59]
  24. Variation XXIII (Poco meno mosso) [0'42]
  25. Variation XXIV (Meno) [0'45]
  26. Variation XXV (Allegro molto vivace) [1'05]
  27. Variation XXVI (Allegretto) [1'17]
  28. Variation XXVII (L'istesso tempo) [2'25]
  29. Variation XXVIII (Prestissimo) [0'47]
  30. Variation XXIX (Vivace) [1'21]
  31. Variation XXX (Largo) [1'18]
  32. Variation XXXI (L'istesso tempo) [1'25]
  33. Variation XXXII (Adagissimo) [2'53]
  34. Fuga [12'55]

‘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)

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