String Quartets

Album by Arnold Schönberg & Alexander von Zemlinsky & Lark Quartet

String Quartets is a collection of chamber works by Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg, composed between 1905 and 1927. The works trace Schoenberg's evolution from late-Romantic chromaticism and early atonality to his later use of the twelve-tone method, featuring dense contrapuntal textures, expressive dissonance and, in one piece, extended vocal writing that blurs the boundary between song and instrumental writing, and they occupy a pivotal place in his transition toward serialism and the wider development of twentieth-century chamber music.

First released: 1996

Tracklist

1.
String Quartet in D minor, op. 7: Beginning to E
12:30
2.
String Quartet in D minor, op. 7: E to K
12:01
3.
String Quartet in D minor, op. 7: K to M
11:10
4.
String Quartet in D minor, op. 7: M to End
8:42
5.
String Quartet no. 4, op. 25: Praludium
4:25
6.
String Quartet no. 4, op. 25: Burleske
4:45
7.
String Quartet no. 4, op. 25: Adagietto
3:21
8.
String Quartet no. 4, op. 25: Intermezzo
4:21
9.
String Quartet no. 4, op. 25: Thema mit Variationen
5:26
10.
String Quartet no. 4, op. 25: Finale-Doppelfuge
3:09

String Quartets

Album by Arnold Schönberg & Alexander von Zemlinsky & Lark Quartet

Tracklist

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