Bartok: The Complete String Quartets / Juilliard String Quartet
Sample, for instance, the stunning synchronicity of the glissandos and thick tutti chords in the first movement of the Fourth quartet, the textural diversity the players bring to the muted Prestissimo movement, and notice how the all-pizzicato movement's loudest pluckings never compromise pitch definition. In the Second quartet, listen to the gorgeously-layered and controlled slow, sustained lines at the Lento's outset, and revel in the Third quartet coda's joyous intensity and dramatic payoff. I especially like the brisk, effortless conversational quality of the Fifth quartet Scherzo's asymmetrical lines, the group's impeccable dynamic contouring of the unison single lines in the first movement of the Sixth, as well as the hushed, sustained rapture in the same work's final movement. A big thank you to Sony and Arkivmusic.com for making this milestone Bartók cycle available again.
--Jed Distler, ClassicsToday.com
Product Description:
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Release Date: September 14, 2010
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UPC: 886977711923
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Catalog Number: SONY77119
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Label: Sony Masterworks
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Number of Discs: 3
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Composer: Béla Bartók
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Orchestra/Ensemble: Juilliard String Quartet
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Performer: JUILLIARD STRING QUARTET
Works:
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Quartet for Strings no 1 in A minor, Op. 7/Sz 40
Composer: Béla Bartók
Ensemble: Juilliard String Quartet
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Quartet for Strings no 2 in A minor, Op. 17
Composer: Béla Bartók
Ensemble: Juilliard String Quartet
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Quartet for Strings no 3, Sz 85
Composer: Béla Bartók
Ensemble: Juilliard String Quartet
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Quartet for Strings no 4, Sz 91
Composer: Béla Bartók
Ensemble: Juilliard String Quartet
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Quartet for Strings no 5, Sz 102
Composer: Béla Bartók
Ensemble: Juilliard String Quartet
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Quartet for Strings no 6, Sz 114
Composer: Béla Bartók
Ensemble: Juilliard String Quartet