String Quartets

Album by Claude Debussy & Maurice Ravel & Carmina Quartet

String Quartet in G minor, Op. 10 is the only string quartet by French composer Claude Debussy, composed in 1893. The work combines late-Romantic structures with an emerging impressionistic palette—evocative timbral effects, modal and whole-tone-inflected harmonies and shifting tonal centres—and occupies a key position in Debussy's development toward a distinct chamber-music voice.
First released: 1992

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    String Quartet in G minor, Op. 10: I. Anime et tres decide
    6:46
  2. 2.
    String Quartet in G minor, Op. 10: II. Assez vif et bien rythme
    3:54
  3. 3.
    String Quartet in G minor, Op. 10: III. Andantino, doucement expressif
    7:19
  4. 4.
    String Quartet in G minor, Op. 10: IV. Tres modere
    7:24
  5. 5.
    String Quartet in F major: I. Allegro moderato, Tres doux
    8:22
  6. 6.
    String Quartet in F major: II. Assez vif Tres rythme
    6:21
  7. 7.
    String Quartet in F major: III. Tres lent
    8:40
  8. 8.
    String Quartet in F major: IV. Vif et agite
    5:18

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