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String Quartet No. 2 in A-
Allegro energico - Adagio - Allegro vivace


Feb. 16, 1962 unknown by John Beckwith

Canadian String Quartet Fluent

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The Morawetz piece - introduced by the Parlow Quartet, if memory serves, about six years ago - is one of his best works. [...] It's highly effective music, if conventional in idiom and the first movement especially with its concise motivic ideas and strong modal harmonies, comes off the page in really animated waves of sound. The finale, too, has a purposeful energy about it and rises to a grand assertive close [...]

On the whole, the playing of this work came across as well rehearsed and musically positive - and those are qualities it's always good to find in a performance of a local man's music.

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