String Quartet No. 4 (1928) / Contrasts (1938)

Album by Béla Bartók & Guilet String Quartet & Daniel Guilet & Herbert Tichman & Ruth Budnevich

This album is a recording of chamber works by Hungarian composer Béla Bartók, comprising pieces composed in 1928 and 1938. The music showcases Bartók's mature chamber style, combining folk-derived modal melodies, pungent dissonances and vigorous, motoric rhythms with intricate contrapuntal textures, and it reflects his ongoing synthesis of ethnomusicological material and modernist techniques during a pivotal phase of his creative life.

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    String Quartet no. 4: 1st movt. – Allegro
  2. 2.
    String Quartet no. 4: 2nd movt. – Prestissimo con sordino
  3. 3.
    String Quartet no. 4: 3rd movt. – Non troppo lento
  4. 4.
    String Quartet no. 4: 4th movt. – Allegretto pizzicato
  5. 5.
    String Quartet no. 4: 5th movt. – Allegro molto
  6. 6.
    Contrasts: 1st movt. – Moderato, ben ritmato
  7. 7.
    Contrasts: 2nd movt. – Lento
  8. 8.
    Contrasts: 3rd movt. – Allegro vivace

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