Mátyás Seiber: String Quartets Nos 1–3 Contemporary ever-appealing (and expertly performed)

ever-appealing (and expertly performed)

This is a disc to be revisited and savoured again and again"

brought together on a single recording for the first time

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"There’s a special thrill in hearing the sound of an ancient instrument

Mátyás Seiber: String Quartets Nos 1–3 Contemporary ever-appealing (and expertly performed)SUMMARY TRACK LISTING REVIEWS INFO Mtys Seibers three string quartets span his career, from the astonishingly assured student essay of the first composed in 1924 at the age of just eighteen to the mature synthesis of his third and final Quartetto Lirico. Seibers work was nourished by several of the twentieth centurys most important stylistic trends, from jazz and serialism to the folk music of his native Hungary. He was also, like many of the mid