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String Quartet No. 4: I. Allegro furioso

from String Quartets by Jeremy Beck

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String Quartet No. 4 is in four movements which are then paired in a non-linear fashion. The opening Allegro furioso
is interrupted by a brief Allegretto, which acts more as an interlude to the fast music than as a complete contrasting section.
This more graceful music is in fact a foreshadowing of the third movement, and will be more fully developed when it returns
at that time. The second movement, Grave, is in the character of a hymn or spiritual - the music from this movement will return
towards the end of the last movement, both as a reminiscence and as a part of a summary and closing of the entire quartet.
As well, brief gestures from the opening movement attempt to break into the final closing bars, but the energy from these gestures
is not enough to rouse the music at the end, which soon disappears in a tonal haze of floating harmonies.

String Quartet No. 4 was begun in the fall of 1999 and completed the following spring in Yorba Linda, California. It was given its
world premiere 2 March 2001 by the San Gabriel String Quartet in Fullerton, California. I have also arranged this composition for
string orchestra. Retitled Sinfonietta, this version appears on Wave (innova 612), a 2004 CD of some of my orchestra music performed
by the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Kirk Trevor.

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from String Quartets, released September 18, 2023
San Gabriel String Quartet
Julie Metz and Ruth Bruegger, violins
Lynn Lusher Grants, viola; Maurice Grants, violoncello

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Jeremy Beck “knows the importance of embracing the past while also going his own way. … [In] Beck’s forceful and expressive sound world … the writing is concise in structure and generous in tonal language, savouring both the dramatic and the poetic.” (Gramophone Magazine). ... more

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