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This second Toccata Classics disc of John Pickard's chamber music - released to mark his 50th birthday - presents both his earliest and his most recent string quartets, No.1(1991) cast in a vast single paragraph 38 minutes in length and the five-movement No.5 (2012-13) exploring a dialectic of conflict and resolution. Both works are world premiere recordings. Album Tracks 1. Crotchet = 48 2. 'Unison Melody' 1 3. Prelude 4. Fugue I 5. Fugue II 6. 'Unison Melody' 2 7. Meditation 8. Prestissimo 9. Climax 10. Coda 11. Inquieto 12. Desolato 13. Prestissimo E Leggiero 14. Drammatico 15. Molto Energico
