Recorded: 6 and 25 February 2013, St John the Baptist Aldbury Recording engineer: Jonathan Haskell, Astounding Sounds Producer: Peter Sheppard Skærved Booklet essays: Ron Drummond and Peter Sheppard Skærved Design and layout: Paul Brooks, Design and Print, Oxford The Kreutzer Quartet would like to thank the following friends for their enlightened support of this project: Seth Blacklock, Richard Bram, Nicholas Clapton, Nigel Clarke, Penelope J. Edwards, Karoline Geisler, Sadie Harrison, Geoff Hogg, Roy Howat, Midori Komachi, Bridget MacRae, Jamie Macdonald, Diana Mathews, Colin Mathews, Professor Linda Merrick, Heather Oakley, Kathryn Parry, Michael Alec Rose, Carl Rosman, Meriel Schindler, Elliott Schwartz, Michael K. Slayton, Helen Starr and Agatha Yim. Thanks also to the team at Kickstarter. Executive producer: Martin Anderson TOCC 0022 © 2013, Toccata Classics, London P 2013, Toccata Classics, London Toccata Classics CDs are also available in the shops and can be ordered from our distributors around the world, a list of whom can be found at www.toccataclassics.com. If we have no representation in your country, please contact: Toccata Classics, 16 Dalkeith Court, Vincent Street, London SW1P 4HH, UK Tel: +44/0 207 821 5020 E-mail:
[email protected] INTRODUCING ANTON REICHA’S VIENNA STRING QUARTETS by Ron Drummond This is the first of four CDs devoted to the eight Vienna string quartets of Anton Reicha (1770–1836), themselves part of a larger project to record all of Reicha’s surviving string quartets. In undertaking these recordings – world premieres, all – the Kreutzer Quartet is healing a major breach in the history of the quartet as a form.