Thomas Christian Ensemble - Weigl: String Quartets Nos. 7 & 8 (2020)
BAND/ARTIST: Thomas Christian Ensemble
- Title: Weigl: String Quartets Nos. 7 & 8
- Year Of Release: 2020
- Label: CPO
- Genre: Classical
- Quality: flac lossless +Booklet
- Total Time: 00:54:43
- Total Size: 262 mb
- WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist
01. String Quartet No. 7 in F Minor: I. Andante
02. String Quartet No. 7 in F Minor: II. Allegro molto
03. String Quartet No. 7 in F Minor: III. Adagio
04. String Quartet No. 7 in F Minor: IV. Allegro
05. String Quartet No. 8 in D Major: I. Allegro non troppo, ma con brio
06. String Quartet No. 8 in D Major: II. Andante
07. String Quartet No. 8 in D Major: III. Allegro moderato
08. String Quartet No. 8 in D Major: IV. Adagio-Allegro
Following Karl Weigls Cello Concerto, cpo are now releasing his last two String Quartets, his seventh and eighth such works, neither of which were performed during his lifetime. The premiere of Quartet No. 7 was held at the Austrian Institute in New York in 1956, seven years after the composers death, and the Concord Quartet premiered Quartet No. 8 at Lincoln Center in New York, in 1973. Weigl completed his penultimate quartet in January 1942 and this work adheres to the finely felt lyricism generally distinguishing his style. It is a work without 'screams' and hardly anything would lead us to suspect that it is not a composition from Weigls years in Vienna. The same cannot be said of his eighth and last quartet. Weigl knew how to shock his listeners without needing to seek refuge in unresolved dissonances. And this quartet indeed is shocking. The first movement is blunt and mysterious at one and the same time. With its dotted motif the fugued development section strives toward a coda that in the end modulates from minor to major without prior warning.
01. String Quartet No. 7 in F Minor: I. Andante
02. String Quartet No. 7 in F Minor: II. Allegro molto
03. String Quartet No. 7 in F Minor: III. Adagio
04. String Quartet No. 7 in F Minor: IV. Allegro
05. String Quartet No. 8 in D Major: I. Allegro non troppo, ma con brio
06. String Quartet No. 8 in D Major: II. Andante
07. String Quartet No. 8 in D Major: III. Allegro moderato
08. String Quartet No. 8 in D Major: IV. Adagio-Allegro
Following Karl Weigls Cello Concerto, cpo are now releasing his last two String Quartets, his seventh and eighth such works, neither of which were performed during his lifetime. The premiere of Quartet No. 7 was held at the Austrian Institute in New York in 1956, seven years after the composers death, and the Concord Quartet premiered Quartet No. 8 at Lincoln Center in New York, in 1973. Weigl completed his penultimate quartet in January 1942 and this work adheres to the finely felt lyricism generally distinguishing his style. It is a work without 'screams' and hardly anything would lead us to suspect that it is not a composition from Weigls years in Vienna. The same cannot be said of his eighth and last quartet. Weigl knew how to shock his listeners without needing to seek refuge in unresolved dissonances. And this quartet indeed is shocking. The first movement is blunt and mysterious at one and the same time. With its dotted motif the fugued development section strives toward a coda that in the end modulates from minor to major without prior warning.
Year 2020 | Classical | FLAC / APE
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