Title: Flury: Chamber Music, Vol. 2 Artist: Colla Parte Quartet Label: Toccata Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 5060113447173 Genre: Classical Artists Release Date: 2024-09-20 Number of Discs: 1
The exploration of the music of the Swiss composer Richard Flury (1896-1967) on Toccata Classics continues with this first recording of two more of his seven string quartets. Flury was himself a gifted violinist, and these works - written for personal pleasure and for musician friends - observe the classic definition of the string quartet as a conversation between four equal partners, with Flury's many years of practical music-making producing quartet-textures that are thoroughly idiomatic, even masterly. Both works speak a rich late-Romantic language similar to that of composers such as Korngold, Schmidt and Zemlinsky and encompass a gratifying range of emotions, from touching introspection to bucolic cheer.
Tracks: 1.1 String Quartet No. 2 in E minor/major~I. Allegro 1.2 String Quartet No. 2 in E minor/major~II. Andante sostenuto 1.3 String Quartet No. 2 in E minor/major~III. Scherzo: Presto 1.4 String Quartet No. 2 in E minor/major~IV. Allegro finale 1.5 String Quartet No. 3 in C major~I. Allegro 1.6 String Quartet No. 3 in C major~II. Andante 1.7 String Quartet No. 3 in C major~III. Scherzo: Allegro molto 1.8 String Quartet No. 3 in C major~IV. Presto finale
