by Cassatt String Quartet · Naxos American Classics · CD · EAN 0636943938423
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«String Quartets Nos. 1-3» is the album by the Cassatt String Quartet, featuring quartets by Dan Welcher, released in 2009 on the Naxos American Classics label on CD.
The album brings together Dan Welcher's three string quartets. The third, “Cassatt”, evokes the painter Mary Cassatt; the second, “Harbor Music”, recalls Sydney Harbour; the first alternates harshness, melancholy, tragedy, calm and dark humour. It includes the movements “At the Opera” and “Young Woman in Green, Outdoors in the Sun”.
Catalogue number 8.559384. Recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York between 2007 and 2008. Total duration: 60:38.
For fans of contemporary chamber music and American repertoire, with echoes of Mary Cassatt's impressionism.
