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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