Richard Flury: Chamber Music, Volume One: String Quartets, Nos. 1 & 4 Colla Parte Quartet

• Richard Flury (1896 - 1967): String Quartet No. 1 in D minor:
• 1 Flury: String Quartet No. 1 in D minor: I. Allegro 06:28
• 2 Flury: String Quartet No. 1 in D minor: II. Andante 05:43
• 3 Flury: String Quartet No. 1 in D minor: III. Scherzo 03:45
• 4 Flury: String Quartet No. 1 in D minor: IV. Allegro vivo 05:43
• String Quartet No. 4:
• 5 Flury: String Quartet No. 4: I. Allegro 13:28
• 6 Flury: String Quartet No. 4: II. Andante 07:24
• 7 Flury: String Quartet No. 4: III. Vivace 06:39
• 8 Flury: String Quartet No. 4: IV. Allegro molto 06:45
• Total Runtime 55:55

Info for Richard Flury: Chamber Music, Volume One: String Quartets, Nos. 1 & 4

The exploration of the music of the Swiss composer Richard Flury (1896–1967) on Toccata Classics now turns to his chamber output, with this first recording of his String Quartets Nos. 1 and 4. Flury was himself a gifted violinist, and these works – written for personal pleasure and for musician friends – were composed with an intimate familiarity with the medium. In the fourteen years between these two quartets, Flury’s musical language consolidated, from the early foray into mild modernism heard in No. 1 into the rich, late-Romantic aesthetic of No. 4.

Colla Parte Quartet:
Georg Jacobi, violin
Susanna Holliger, violin
Friedemann Jähnig, viola
Eva Simmen, cello

Colla Parte Quartet
Founded in 1997 by musicians from the Bern Symphony Orchestra, in addition to its focus on the classical-romantic string quartet literature, it also cultivates the contemporary repertoire (including several world premieres) and the expansion from quintet to octet in collaboration with musicians such as Kit Armstrong, Claire Huangci, Patrizio Mazzola, Bruno Schneider, Daniel Zisman and Michael Zisman, the Basel String Quartet and others. The COLLA PARTE QUARTETT was broadcast live and with CD recordings on Radio SRF 2 and received decisive inspiration from Gábor Takács (Takács Quartet) and Sándor Devich (Bartók Quartet). Recordings of works by Leoš Janáček, Anton von Webern, Richard Flury and Béla Bartók are available on CD. The members have studied individually and as a quartet with internationally renowned teachers and ensembles, including Max Rostal, György Pauk, Gábor Takács and the Amadeus Quartet.

The members of the quartet regularly fulfill solo engagements as well as invitations as concertmaster and section leader with various orchestras. The most recent CD recording of Leoš Janáček's string quartets met with a broad response and was broadcast several times on Radio DRS 2.

Booklet for Richard Flury: Chamber Music, Volume One: String Quartets, Nos. 1 & 4