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Title: Complete String Quartets Vol. 2
Artist: Quatuor Van Kuijk
Label: Alpha
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 3760014199318
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2023-03-10
Number of Discs: 1
After a first volume praised by the press, including an Editor's Choice in Gramophone, the Quatuor Van Kuijk concludes it's complete recording of Mendelssohn's string quartets with op.44 nos. 2 and 3 and the Quartet op.80, which bears the mark of the sudden death in 1847 of his sister Fanny, to whom he was very close, at the age of only forty-two. As Stéphane Goldet writes in the booklet: 'The act of resistance that is the Quartet op.80, written in a single burst during the summer of 1847, it's overwhelming No, not that, not her! shouted by four instruments for twenty-five minutes, was to be the composer's last completed work. The four movements of this confrontation with grief (Bernard Fournier) in F minor are to be played con dolore, although that marking never appears in the score.' She goes on to quote Brigitte François-Sappey: 'This Requiem for Fanny might be called Death and the Young Woman. As in Schubert's last two quartets, the strings shiver in tremolos over ostinato pedals, like death knells.'
Tracks:
1.1 String Quartet No. 6 in F minor, Op. 80~I. Allegro vivace assai
1.2 String Quartet No. 6 in F minor, Op. 80~II. Allegro assai
1.3 String Quartet No. 6 in F minor, Op. 80~III. Adagio
1.4 String Quartet No. 6 in F minor, Op. 80~IV. Finale. Allegro molto
1.5 String Quartet No. 4 in E minor, Op. 44 No. 2~I. Allegro assai appassionato
1.6 String Quartet No. 4 in E minor, Op. 44 No. 2~II. Scherzo. Allegro di molto
1.7 String Quartet No. 4 in E minor, Op. 44 No. 2~III. Andante
1.8 String Quartet No. 4 in E minor, Op. 44 No. 2~IV. Presto agitato
1.9 String Quartet No. 5 in E flat major, Op. 44 No. 3~I. Allegro vivace
1.10 String Quartet No. 5 in E flat major, Op. 44 No. 3~II. Scherzo. Assai leggierto vivace
1.11 String Quartet No. 5 in E flat major, Op. 44 No. 3~III. Adagio non troppo
1.12 String Quartet No. 5 in E flat major, Op. 44 No. 3~IV. Molto allegro con fuoco
Artist: Quatuor Van Kuijk
Label: Alpha
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 3760014199318
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2023-03-10
Number of Discs: 1
After a first volume praised by the press, including an Editor's Choice in Gramophone, the Quatuor Van Kuijk concludes it's complete recording of Mendelssohn's string quartets with op.44 nos. 2 and 3 and the Quartet op.80, which bears the mark of the sudden death in 1847 of his sister Fanny, to whom he was very close, at the age of only forty-two. As Stéphane Goldet writes in the booklet: 'The act of resistance that is the Quartet op.80, written in a single burst during the summer of 1847, it's overwhelming No, not that, not her! shouted by four instruments for twenty-five minutes, was to be the composer's last completed work. The four movements of this confrontation with grief (Bernard Fournier) in F minor are to be played con dolore, although that marking never appears in the score.' She goes on to quote Brigitte François-Sappey: 'This Requiem for Fanny might be called Death and the Young Woman. As in Schubert's last two quartets, the strings shiver in tremolos over ostinato pedals, like death knells.'
Tracks:
1.1 String Quartet No. 6 in F minor, Op. 80~I. Allegro vivace assai
1.2 String Quartet No. 6 in F minor, Op. 80~II. Allegro assai
1.3 String Quartet No. 6 in F minor, Op. 80~III. Adagio
1.4 String Quartet No. 6 in F minor, Op. 80~IV. Finale. Allegro molto
1.5 String Quartet No. 4 in E minor, Op. 44 No. 2~I. Allegro assai appassionato
1.6 String Quartet No. 4 in E minor, Op. 44 No. 2~II. Scherzo. Allegro di molto
1.7 String Quartet No. 4 in E minor, Op. 44 No. 2~III. Andante
1.8 String Quartet No. 4 in E minor, Op. 44 No. 2~IV. Presto agitato
1.9 String Quartet No. 5 in E flat major, Op. 44 No. 3~I. Allegro vivace
1.10 String Quartet No. 5 in E flat major, Op. 44 No. 3~II. Scherzo. Assai leggierto vivace
1.11 String Quartet No. 5 in E flat major, Op. 44 No. 3~III. Adagio non troppo
1.12 String Quartet No. 5 in E flat major, Op. 44 No. 3~IV. Molto allegro con fuoco
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