Dorrit Ensemble: Shield: 6 String Quartets - COMPACT DISCS

The Dorrit Ensemble: Shield: 6 String Quartets - COMPACT DISCS

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Shield: 6 String Quartets

Artist:

The Dorrit Ensemble

Label:

Naxos

Product Type:

COMPACT DISCS

UPC:

747313444670

Genre:

Classical Artists

Release Date:

2025-10-10

Number of Discs:

1

William Shield rose from relatively humble beginnings to become the 'house' composer to Covent Garden, for which he wrote stage works full of panache and tunefulness. He met and befriended Haydn who was to prove a lasting influence. In 1782 Shield published his Six String Quartets, Op. 3, some of the most richly rewarding works of their type in 18th-century England. The transparency of parts, use of imitation, infusion of Sturm und Drang elements as well as the bucolic and folkloric writing, all demonstrate Shield's art, as does the progressive writing of the last of the six, in C minor.

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