Alexander Goehr – String Quartet no. 3
Lindsay String Quartet
Reactionaries continue to regard the innovations of Schoenberg and Stravinsky as tending to undermine the good old tradition while the avant-garde views the same advances as an obligation to perpetual revolution. However, a third group of composers, as yet regrettably small, sees the most hopeful way forward out of the resulting confusion as that of the modest progressive.
Alexander Goehr, for instance, holds that, properly understood, the new resources of twentieth century composition offer means not of supplanting but of enriching the grammar and syntax of musical understanding as it has evolved beneath the surface of the varying musical styles of the last few centuries.
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