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Zemlinsky / Brodsky Quartet
Zemlinsky / Brodsky Quartet: String Quartets - COMPACT DISCS
Zemlinsky / Brodsky Quartet: String Quartets - COMPACT DISCS
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Title: String Quartets
Artist: Zemlinsky / Brodsky Quartet
Label: Chandos
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 095115184523
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2015-02-24
Number of Discs: 2
In this recording of Alexander Zemlinsky's (1871-1942) complete String Quartets, the Brodsky Quartet gives fresh life to the composer's works, 'with a spirit so transformational you felt they were actually improving the world', as reported by the Strad after a recent concert performance. The four string quartets represent a journey through Zemlinsky's musical thought. The Brahmsian, youthful Quartet in A, op. 4 is generously proportioned and less earnest in mood than some earlier works. The Second Quartet, op. 15 echoes the composer's years of emotional crisis. Contrastingly, the Third Quartet, op. 19 appears to be a sarcastic protest against modernism, Zemlinsky exploiting a minimum of material to maximum effect. Having been blacklisted and his music declared 'degenerate', the Fourth Quartet, op. 25 (1936) only achieved it's first public performance in 1967. It deploys a wealth of thematic ideas in a process of continual variation and metamorphosis that follows the outlines of sonata form. The String Quartet in E minor failed to pass it's trial at the Viennese Tonkunstlerverein when first presented in 1893. Not published until 1997, it appears here on disc for the first time.
Tracks:
1.1 01-04. String Quartet No. 1, Op. 4
1.2 05-12. String Quartet NR. 2, Op. 15
2.1 01-04. String Quartet NR. 3, Op 19
2.2 05-10. String Quartet NR. 4 (Suite), Op. 25
2.3 11-14. String Quartet in E minor
Artist: Zemlinsky / Brodsky Quartet
Label: Chandos
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 095115184523
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2015-02-24
Number of Discs: 2
In this recording of Alexander Zemlinsky's (1871-1942) complete String Quartets, the Brodsky Quartet gives fresh life to the composer's works, 'with a spirit so transformational you felt they were actually improving the world', as reported by the Strad after a recent concert performance. The four string quartets represent a journey through Zemlinsky's musical thought. The Brahmsian, youthful Quartet in A, op. 4 is generously proportioned and less earnest in mood than some earlier works. The Second Quartet, op. 15 echoes the composer's years of emotional crisis. Contrastingly, the Third Quartet, op. 19 appears to be a sarcastic protest against modernism, Zemlinsky exploiting a minimum of material to maximum effect. Having been blacklisted and his music declared 'degenerate', the Fourth Quartet, op. 25 (1936) only achieved it's first public performance in 1967. It deploys a wealth of thematic ideas in a process of continual variation and metamorphosis that follows the outlines of sonata form. The String Quartet in E minor failed to pass it's trial at the Viennese Tonkunstlerverein when first presented in 1893. Not published until 1997, it appears here on disc for the first time.
Tracks:
1.1 01-04. String Quartet No. 1, Op. 4
1.2 05-12. String Quartet NR. 2, Op. 15
2.1 01-04. String Quartet NR. 3, Op 19
2.2 05-10. String Quartet NR. 4 (Suite), Op. 25
2.3 11-14. String Quartet in E minor
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