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String Quartet No. 5: I. Grazioso (attacca)

from String Quartets by Jeremy Beck

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Composed in 2006 in Louisville, Kentucky, String Quartet No. 5 is in three movements. The first movement is revealed in a clear ABA’ form, where
the music suggests two different types of moods. The outer sections are in a graceful triple time while the contrasting middle section
(marked “with nostalgia”) suggests a blues atmosphere. The return of the A’ music continues attacca into the second movement. Utilizing
a key signature of four sharps, the music of this movement is developed as a kind of theme with variations. The last movement, marked
Con moto e preciso, begins with a vigorous and aggressive gesture that returns as a part of the later development of this movement’s musical
material. Following the opening gesture, the cello introduces the principle thematic idea for the movement, which is developed contrapuntally in a
type of canzona style. Towards the end of the movement, these two ideas (the opening gesture as developed and the cello’s contrapuntal theme) are
layered and woven together, driving the music forward to a forceful and spirited conclusion.

String Quartet No. 5 was premiered 7 October 2010 by the Da Kappo String Quartet (Derek Ratzenboeck and Maxine Kuo, violins; Rebecca Barnes, viola;
Peter McCaffrey, violoncello) on the Hear+Now series at the 21c Museum Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky. In 2011, I recomposed the second movement of
this composition for chamber orchestra, calling it Serenade.

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from String Quartets, released September 18, 2023
Da Kappo String Quartet
Derek Ratzenboeck and Maxine Kuo, violins;
Rebecca Barnes, viola; Peter McCaffrey, 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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