String Quartets Nos. 2, 4, & 6

Album by Béla Bartók & Jerusalem Quartet

String Quartets Nos. 2, 4, & 6 are chamber works by Hungarian composer Béla Bartók, composed in 1917–18, 1928 and 1939 respectively. They chart Bartók's stylistic progression within 20th-century chamber music, moving from late-Romantic textures toward an austere modernism characterised by folk-derived modes, rhythmic innovation, extended string techniques and increasingly dissonant harmonic language, marking key stages in his development as a modernist composer.

String Quartets Nos. 2, 4, & 6 by Béla Bartók - album cover

First released: 4th November 2016

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String Quartet no. 2 op. 17 Sz.67 in A minor: Moderato
10:04
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String Quartet no. 2 op. 17 Sz.67 in A minor: Allegro molto capriccioso
8:01
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String Quartet no. 2 op. 17 Sz.67 in A minor: Lento
8:22
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String Quartet no. 4 Sz. 91 in C major: Allegro
6:06
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String Quartet no. 4 Sz. 91 in C major: Prestissimo, con sordino
3:10
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String Quartet no. 4 Sz. 91 in C major: Non troppo lento
5:58
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String Quartet no. 4 Sz. 91 in C major: Allegretto pizzicato
2:48
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String Quartet no. 4 Sz. 91 in C major: Allegro molto
5:51
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String Quartet no. 6 Sz. 114 in D major: Mesto - Più mosso, pesente - Vivace
7:29
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String Quartet no. 6 Sz. 114 in D major: Mesto - Marcia
7:39
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String Quartet no. 6 Sz. 114 in D major: Mesto - Burletta. Moderato
7:08
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String Quartet no. 6 Sz. 114 in D major: Mesto
6:09