String Quartets

Album by Béla Bartók & New Budapest Quartet

String Quartets is a cycle of six string quartets by Hungarian composer Béla Bartók, composed between 1908 and 1939. Spanning late-Romantic, folk-influenced and modernist idioms, the quartets explore extended string techniques, complex rhythms and concentrated motivic development, charting Bartók's progression from nationalistic roots to a mature modernist language within 20th-century chamber music.
First released: June 1993

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    String Quartet no. 1 Sz 40 (op. 7): Lento
    9:19
  2. 2.
    String Quartet no. 2 Sz 67 (op. 17): Moderato
    10:38
  3. 3.
    String Quartet no. 1 Sz 40 (op. 7): Poco a Poco Accelerando Al Allegretto
    8:39
  4. 4.
    String Quartet no. 2 Sz 67 (op. 17): Allegro molto capriccioso
    7:53
  5. 5.
    String Quartet no. 1 Sz 40 (op. 7): Introduzione (Allegro) - Allegro vivace
    12:00
  6. 6.
    String Quartet no. 2 Sz 67 (op. 17): Lento
    8:12
  7. 7.
    String Quartet no. 3 Sz 85: Prima Parte: Moderato
    5:30
  8. 8.
    String Quartet no. 4 Sz91: Allegro
    6:01
  9. 9.
    String Quartet no. 3 Sz 85: Seconda Parte: Allegro / Ricapitulazione
    9:19
  10. 10.
    String Quartet no. 4 Sz91: Prestissimo, Con sordino
    3:05
  11. 11.
    String Quartet no. 4 Sz91: Non Troppo Lento
    5:49
  12. 12.
    String Quartet no. 3 Sz 85: Coda: Allegro molto
    2:06
  13. 13.
    String Quartet no. 4 Sz91: Allegretto pizzicato
    2:43
  14. 14.
    String Quartet no. 5 Sz 102: Allegro
    7:44
  15. 15.
    String Quartet no. 5 Sz 102: Adagio molto
    6:28
  16. 16.
    String Quartet no. 4 Sz91: Allegro molto
    5:56
  17. 17.
    String Quartet no. 6 Sz 114: Mesto - Più mosso, Pesante - Vivace
    7:47
  18. 18.
    String Quartet no. 5 Sz 102: Scherzo: Alla Bulgarese (Vivace) - Trio
    5:35
  19. 19.
    String Quartet no. 6 Sz 114: Mesto - Marcia
    7:44
  20. 20.
    String Quartet no. 5 Sz 102: Andante
    5:38
  21. 21.
    String Quartet no. 5 Sz 102: Finale: Allegro vivace
    7:16
  22. 22.
    String Quartet no. 6 Sz 114: Mesto - Burletto (Moderato)
    7:02
  23. 23.
    String Quartet no. 6 Sz 114: Mesto
    6:32

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