Debussy & Szymanowski: Quartets
- Label
- Deutsche Grammophon
- Catalogue number
- 477 9548
- EAN / barcode
- 028947795483
- Release date
- 1 February 2012
- Format
- Digital
- Type
- Album
More info
This is the new recording that chamber music fans have been waiting for so long. Three years after Brahms, the Belcea Quartet returns with a new lineup: Suyeon Kang, the new second violin, has been part of the quartet since 2023. Now the Belcea Quartet presents a new recording of the Debussy Quartet - which they had already recorded on their very first album 25 years ago - and two quartets by Karol Szymanowski, a composer who is particularly close to their hearts and who cultivates a unique and instantly recognizable musical language. The first quartet was composed in 1917, but the Russian Revolution intervened and the premiere took place only in 1924. Szymanowski - then a world-famous composer and a leading figure in the reconstruction of musical life in the young Polish Republic - wrote his second quartet in 1927, ten years after the first. It premiered in Warsaw two years later.
Tracklist
- 01 Pour le piano: I. Prelude 03:48
- 02 Pour le piano: II. Sarabande 04:11
- 03 Pour le piano: III. Toccata 03:57
- 04 Estampes: I. Pagodes 05:00
- 05 Estampes: II. Soirée dans Grenade 04:12
- 06 Estampes: III. Jardins sous la pluie 03:36
- 07 L'Isle joyeuse 05:36
- 08 Prelude and Fugue in C-sharp minor: Prelude. Lento, ma non troppo, rubato 02:37
- 09 Prelude and Fugue in C-sharp minor: Fugue. Andante 04:05
- 10 Sonata in C minor, op. 8: I. Allegro moderato 06:39
- 11 Sonata in C minor, op. 8: II. Adagio 05:04
- 12 Sonata in C minor, op. 8: III. Tempo di minuetto 03:43
- 13 Sonata in C minor, op. 8: IV. Finale. Introduzione 02:26
- 14 Sonata in C minor, op. 8: IV. Finale. Fuga a tre voci 07:28
Source: MusicBrainz
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