Belcea Quartet - Debussy & Szymanowski: Qrts [CD]
Belcea Quartet - Debussy & Szymanowski: Qrts [CD]
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This is the new recording we have been waiting for. Three years after Brahms (ALPHA792), the Belcea Quartet returns in a new formation: Suyeon Kang, their new second violin, joined the quartet in 2023. Today the Belcea Quartet presents a new recording of the Debussy Quartet - which they had previously recorded on their very first album 25 years ago - and two quartets by Karol Szymanowski, a composer they are particularly fond of and who possesses a unique and immediately identifiable musical language. The first quartet was composed in 1917 but the Russian Revolution intervened; it's premiere finally took place in 1924. Szymanowski - then a world-renowned composer and a leading figure in the reconstruction of musical life in the young Polish Republic - wrote his second quartet ten years after the first in 1927; it was premiered in Warsaw two years later.
Tracklist:
- String Quartet in G Minor, Op. 10~I. Animé et très décidé
- String Quartet in G Minor, Op. 10~II. Assez vif et bien rythmé
- String Quartet in G Minor, Op. 10~III. Andantino, doucement expressif
- String Quartet in G Minor, Op. 10~IV. Très modéré - Très mouvementé et avec passion
- String Quartet No. 1 in C Major, Op. 37~I. Lento assai - Allegro moderato
- String Quartet No. 1 in C Major, Op. 37~II. Andantino semplice (In modo d'una canzone)
- String Quartet No. 1 in C Major, Op. 37~III. Vivace - Scherzando alla burlesca. Vivace ma non troppo
- String Quartet No. 2, Op. 56~I. Moderato
- String Quartet No. 2, Op. 56~II. Vivace scherzando
- String Quartet No. 2, Op. 56~III. Lento
UPC: 3701624510742
Label: Alpha
Release Date: 11.28.25
Format: CD
