String Quartet in A Minor
Composer: Philip Gates
Catalogue no: CM155 | ISMN M-57034-155-9
String Quartet
"... the highly accessible String Quartet No. 1 in A minor by Philip Gates. Inspired by the composer’s interest in Celtic poetry and penned just over three years ago, its unashamedly modal-pastoral idiom pays open homage to such composers as Vaughan Williams, Howells and Moeran.
Andrew Achenbach, Gramophone
"... first string quartet of a young British composer, Philip Gates. This work takes its inspiration from the lyricism and, in Gates' words, the "powerful nostalgia" of Celtic poetry. It probably belongs more to the sound world of the early twentieth century than anything more recent. Lovers of works in this medium by the likes of Moeran, Bax, Vaughan Williams and, further afield, the quartets of Ravel and Debussy, and the early forays in the genre of Milhaud, Martin? and Ives (as well as the later ones of Dvo?ák), will surely respond to this music. It is primarily folk based with modal and pentatonic writing to the fore. The intensely yearning, extended central Lento impresses the most but the faster, more dance-like outer movements certainly have their moments and plenty of them.
The Gates is a remarkable work.
Neil Horner. MusicWeb International
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