Jonathan Rutherford

Maggini String Quartet, Nicholas Daniel, Michal Kaznowski, Jonathan Rutherford – Lazy Afternoon (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:11:09 minutes | 2,57 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Meridian Records

Lazy Afternoon, retrospectively, expresses the joy of being young, on a hot day in early summer, in the beautiful school grounds near a large tree, which was surrounded by beautiful flowers.

I wrote this arrangement of Lazy Afternoon, for cello solo with string trio and piano, especially for this recording with the Maggini String Quartet. The piano maintains its original accompaniment.

One Sunday evening in late Spring, 2015, Graeme and Penny Kay invited me to their house to talk about a commission. They asked me to write a string quartet lasting seven or eight minutes to be played at the opening of a private concert which was to be given by the Tippett String Quartet at Orford Church on November 28th 2015 in celebration of their joint 60th birthdays, the programme continuing with Janacek’s Intimate Letters, and finishing with Schubert’s Death and the Maiden.

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