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.String Quartet no. 1 Sz 40 (op. 7): Lento9:19
- 2.String Quartet no. 2 Sz 67 (op. 17): Moderato10:38
- 3.String Quartet no. 1 Sz 40 (op. 7): Poco a Poco Accelerando Al Allegretto8:39
- 4.String Quartet no. 2 Sz 67 (op. 17): Allegro molto capriccioso7:53
- 5.String Quartet no. 1 Sz 40 (op. 7): Introduzione (Allegro) - Allegro vivace12:00
- 6.String Quartet no. 2 Sz 67 (op. 17): Lento8:12
- 7.String Quartet no. 3 Sz 85: Prima Parte: Moderato5:30
- 8.String Quartet no. 4 Sz91: Allegro6:01
- 9.String Quartet no. 3 Sz 85: Seconda Parte: Allegro / Ricapitulazione9:19
- 10.String Quartet no. 4 Sz91: Prestissimo, Con sordino3:05
- 11.String Quartet no. 4 Sz91: Non Troppo Lento5:49
- 12.String Quartet no. 3 Sz 85: Coda: Allegro molto2:06
- 13.String Quartet no. 4 Sz91: Allegretto pizzicato2:43
- 14.String Quartet no. 5 Sz 102: Allegro7:44
- 15.String Quartet no. 5 Sz 102: Adagio molto6:28
- 16.String Quartet no. 4 Sz91: Allegro molto5:56
- 17.String Quartet no. 6 Sz 114: Mesto - Più mosso, Pesante - Vivace7:47
- 18.String Quartet no. 5 Sz 102: Scherzo: Alla Bulgarese (Vivace) - Trio5:35
- 19.String Quartet no. 6 Sz 114: Mesto - Marcia7:44
- 20.String Quartet no. 5 Sz 102: Andante5:38
- 21.String Quartet no. 5 Sz 102: Finale: Allegro vivace7:16
- 22.String Quartet no. 6 Sz 114: Mesto - Burletto (Moderato)7:02
- 23.String Quartet no. 6 Sz 114: Mesto6:32