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Dante Quartet - Ravel & Debussy: String Quartets etc. (2010)

Dante Quartet - Ravel & Debussy: String Quartets etc. (2010)

BAND/ARTIST: Dante Quartet

  • Title: Ravel & Debussy: String Quartets etc.
  • Year Of Release: 2010
  • Label: Hyperion
  • Genre: Classical
  • Quality: flac lossless (tracks) +Booklet
  • Total Time: 01:12:24
  • Total Size: 286 mb
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Tracklist

01. Debussy: String Quartet in G Minor, CD 91: I. Animé et très décidé
02. Debussy: String Quartet in G Minor, CD 91: II. Scherzo. Assez vif et bien rythmé
03. Debussy: String Quartet in G Minor, CD 91: III. Andantino, doucement expressif
04. Debussy: String Quartet in G Minor, CD 91: IV. Très modéré – Très mouvementé – Très animé
05. Ravel: Violin Sonata No. 2 in G Major, M. 77: I. Allegretto
06. Ravel: Violin Sonata No. 2 in G Major, M. 77: II. Blues. Moderato
07. Ravel: Violin Sonata No. 2 in G Major, M. 77: III. Perpetuum mobile. Allegro
08. Ravel: String Quartet in F Major, M. 35: I. Allegro moderato, très doux
09. Ravel: String Quartet in F Major, M. 35: II. Assez vif, très rythmé
10. Ravel: String Quartet in F Major, M. 35: III. Très lent
11. Ravel: String Quartet in F Major, M. 35: IV. Vif et agité

The Dante Quartet continue their award-winning exploration of the French string quartet with this disc which includes two of the greatest works of this genre.

Both quartets dazzled and disturbed at their first performances. Debussy’s fantastic, spiralling variations, resisting orthodox ‘development’ of ideas, is described as reminiscent of Monet’s in recording the variations of light on the façade of Rouen Cathedral. Traditionalist commentators were shocked, but the exotic beauty of the writing excited many, including the young Ravel. Ravel’s Quartet is to some extent an hommage to Debussy, but, typically, also a work of startling originality.

Also included is Ravel’s Violin Sonata No 2 in G major, an intriguing, jazz-influenced work, energetic but with a dark undertow of pain; written, as Ravel said, with the aim of ‘exploring the basic incompatibility of violin and piano’.

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