Name: LOOSENING (works by Graham Fitkin)
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Ostensibly these are works for string quartet with soloist, but Loosening, the title track to this important composer-focused double album, feels more like a duet. There is light shining through... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2024, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 12th Jul 2024
Catalogue No: SIGCD792
Label: Signum
Length: 1 hour 41 minutes

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Fitkin, G: LOOSENING

Work length27:42

Album only

Simon Haram
Sacconi Quartet

Fitkin, G: SLOW

Work length25:35

Album only

Ruth Wall, Graham Fitkin
Sacconi Quartet

Fitkin, G: DISTIL

Work length15:10

Album only

Joby Burgess
Sacconi Quartet

Fitkin, G: TOUCH

Work length15:58

Album only

Clare Hammond
Sacconi Quartet

Fitkin, G: RECUR

Work length17:09

Album only

Ruth Wall
Sacconi Quartet

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‘LOOSENING’ is a double album of five works by award winning composer Graham Fitkin. Each one has the string quartet at its core but every work includes its own additional soloist.

The string quartet is a really homogenous group, steeped in history and tradition, in which timbrally similar instruments create a well-honed sound through trusted communication and shared purpose.

Each work has clearly defined roles for the two protagonists - quartet and solist. Each piece allows for two perspectives, two distinct approaches to the material and yet each protagonist is affected by the other.

Approaches often evolve through the works, perhaps the quartet splits their honed homogeneity to focus more on individual constituents or conversely maybe they subsume the incomer into their group creating a larger group.

An album of world premiere recordings - four of thefive works have never been recorded before, and the fifth is a new arrangement (also never recorded).

‘DISTIL’ won the prestigious Royal Philharmonic Society Prize For Chamber Works in 2015.

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September 2024

Ostensibly these are works for string quartet with soloist, but Loosening, the title track to this important composer-focused double album, feels more like a duet. There is light shining through the weave

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