Quartets
BOUGHTON Rutland (1878-1960)
Sarah Francis (Oboe) - The Rasumovsky Quartet
Label : Helios (Hyperion Records)
Artikelnummer: CDH55174
1 CD Spielzeit : 079:06
CHF 13.50
Although Rutland Boughton is rightly admired as an operatic composer, he contributed generously to virtually every musical genre from symphony to song. The two string quartets were written at the height of his popularity in 1923 and are works of much charm. The descriptive titles, of the individual movements as well as of the quartets themselves, do not so much present a 'programme' as suggest, in Boughton's words, 'the emotional pleasure one has in natural beauty of a certain kind'.