String Quartets

Album by Béla Bartók & Takács Quartet

String Quartets is a set of six string quartets by Hungarian composer Béla Bartók, composed between 1908 and 1939. The works move from late-Romantic textures toward a distinct, folk-influenced modernism characterised by dissonance, complex rhythms, contrapuntal writing and extended string techniques, and they occupy a central place in Bartók's chamber music output and 20th-century quartet repertoire.
Classical

About

Disc 1

  1. 1.
    String Quartet no. 1 in A minor, op. 7, Sz. 40: I. Lento
    9:14
  2. 2.
    String Quartet no. 1 in A minor, op. 7, Sz. 40: II. Poco a poco accellerando all'allegretto
    8:08
  3. 3.
    String Quartet no. 1 in A minor, op. 7, Sz. 40: III. Introduzione. Allegro - Allegro vivace
    11:06
  4. 4.
    String Quartet no. 3 in C-sharp major, Sz. 85: I. Prima parte. Moderato
    4:50
  5. 5.
    String Quartet no. 3 in C-sharp major, Sz. 85: II. Seconda parte. Allegro
    5:31
  6. 6.
    String Quartet no. 3 in C-sharp major, Sz. 85: III. Ricapitulazione della prima parte. Moderato
    5:05
  7. 7.
    String Quartet no. 5 in B-flat major, Sz. 102: I. Allegro
    7:32
  8. 8.
    String Quartet no. 5 in B-flat major, Sz. 102: II. Adagio molto
    6:08
  9. 9.
    String Quartet no. 5 in B-flat major, Sz. 102: III. Scherzo
    5:00
  10. 10.
    String Quartet no. 5 in B-flat major, Sz. 102: IV. Andante
    4:50
  11. 11.
    String Quartet no. 5 in B-flat major, Sz. 102: V. Finale
    6:53

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    String Quartet no. 2 in A minor, Sz. 67, op. 17: I. Moderato
    9:44
  2. 3.
    String Quartet no. 2 in A minor, Sz. 67, op. 17: II. Allegro molto capriccioso
    7:18
  3. 4.
    String Quartet no. 2 in A minor, Sz. 67, op. 17: III. Lento
    8:55
  4. 5.
    String Quartet no. 4 in C major, Sz. 91: I. Allegro
    5:58
  5. 6.
    String Quartet no. 4 in C major, Sz. 91: II. Prestissimo, con sordino
    2:44
  6. 7.
    String Quartet no. 4 in C major, Sz. 91: III. Non troppo lento
    5:32
  7. 8.
    String Quartet no. 4 in C major, Sz. 91: IV. Allegro pizzicato
    2:38
  8. 9.
    String Quartet no. 4 in C major, Sz. 91: V. Allegro molto
    5:44
  9. 10.
    String Quartet no. 6 in D major, Sz. 114: I. Mesto - Vivace
    7:14
  10. 11.
    String Quartet no. 6 in D major, Sz. 114: II. Mesto - Marcia
    7:47
  11. 12.
    String Quartet no. 6 in D major, Sz. 114: III. Mesto - Burletta. Moderato
    7:21
  12. 13.
    String Quartet no. 6 in D major, Sz. 114: IV. Mesto
    6:53

Reviews

Similar Releases