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Stamic Quartet - Martinu: String Quartets (2023)

Stamic Quartet - Martinu: String Quartets (2023)

BAND/ARTIST: Stamic Quartet

  • Title: Martinu: String Quartets
  • Year Of Release: 2023
  • Label: Brilliant Classics
  • Genre: Classical
  • Quality: flac lossless (tracks) +Booklet
  • Total Time: 03:13:44
  • Total Size: 825 mb
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Tracklist

01. String Quartet No. 1, H. 117: I. Moderato-Allegro ma non Troppo
02. String Quartet No. 1, H. 117: II. Andante Moderato
03. String Quartet No. 1, H. 117: III. Allegro non Troppo
04. String Quartet No. 1, H. 117: IV. Allegro con Brio
05. String Quartet No. 2, H. 150: I. Moderato-Allegro Vivace
06. String Quartet No. 2, H. 150: II. Andante
07. String Quartet No. 2, H. 150: III. Allegro
08. String Quartet No. 3, H. 183: I. Allegro
09. String Quartet No. 3, H. 183: II. Andante
10. String Quartet No. 3, H. 183: III. Vivo
11. String Quartet No. 4 in D Major, H. 256: I. Allegro poco Moderato
12. String Quartet No. 4 in D Major, H. 256: II. Allegro Scherzando
13. String Quartet No. 4 in D Major, H. 256: III. Adagio
14. String Quartet No. 4 in D Major, H. 256: IV. Allegro
15. String Quartet No. 5, H. 268: I. Allegro ma non Troppo
16. String Quartet No. 5, H. 268: II. Adagio
17. String Quartet No. 5, H. 268: III. Allegro Vivo
18. String Quartet No. 5, H. 268: IV. Lento, Allegro
19. String Quartet No. 6, H. 312: I. Allegro Moderato
20. String Quartet No. 6, H. 312: II. Andante
21. String Quartet No. 6, H. 312: III. Allegro
22. String Quartet No. 7, H. 314: I. Poco Allegro
23. String Quartet No. 7, H. 314: II. Andante
24. String Quartet No. 7, H. 314: III. Allegro Vivo
25. Duo No. 1 '3 Madrigals', H. 313: I. Poco Allegro
26. Duo No. 1 '3 Madrigals', H. 313: II. Poco Andante
27. Duo No. 1 '3 Madrigals', H. 313: III. Allegro
28. String Trio No. 2, H. 238: I. Allegro
29. String Trio No. 2, H. 238: II. Poco Moderato

Long available only in a larger box, the only available digital-era set of Martinů’s string quartets, recorded in 1990 by a native Czech ensemble.
Martinů composed seven quartets over the course of his career, from the First in 1918 to the Seventh in 1947. This chronological range therefore mirrors the development of his music, from Debussy and Franck-accented Bohemianism in the First to a more up-to-date French influence on the Second from 1925, which arrives in the finale at the kind of chugging accumulations of motoric energy that became his trademark.
The Third (1929) proceeds to refine and concentrate this style, still inflected with Czech folk rhythms, before the Fourth (1937) embarks on the project of spicy neoclassicism which lends Martinu’s mid-period masterpieces such as the Fourth and Fifth symphonies their particular, ambiguous sense of industry. Indeed the Fifth Quartet of 1938 is a pivotal work in his huge and multifaceted oeuvre, unsettled, introspective and apparently shadowed by a secret affair with a pupil, whose song is quoted within the quartet.
No.6 dates from 1946, written in Martinů’s postwar exile in the US and yet optimistic where Bartok’s Sixth in similar circumstances is a soul-searching affair. From a year later, the Seventh still retains a youthful, neoclassical vigour, and a Czech flavour to the melodies. This generously filled set concludes with the attractive ‘Madrigals’ Duo and the Second String Trio.
The direct emotional appeal of all seven quartets is vividly brought to life by the Stamitz Quartet in a recording first issued in 1990, and which still has very few rivals on disc. Established in 1985, the Stamitz Quartet quickly became known as leading interpreters of Czech repertory. ‘I can heartily recommend this comprehensive traversal of the unpredictable, occasionally highly impressive works that make up the corpus of Martinů’s Quartets.’ (MusicWeb International)

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