Bartok: Complete String Quartets / Arcadia Quartet

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Label
Chandos
Release Date
November 2, 2018
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      BARTOK, BELA
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Arcadia String Quartet
    • PERFORMER
      ARCADIA STRING QUARTET
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      November 02, 2018
    • UPC
      095115199220
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      CHAN 10992(2)
    • LABEL
      Chandos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Lento

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Ensemble: Arcadia Quartet

    2. II. Poco a poco accelerando al Allegretto

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Ensemble: Arcadia Quartet

    3. III. Introduzione: Allegro - Allegro vivace

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Ensemble: Arcadia Quartet

    4. Prima parte: Moderato -

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Ensemble: Arcadia Quartet

    5. Seconda parte: Allegro -

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Ensemble: Arcadia Quartet

    6. Ricapitulazione della prima parte: Moderato -

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Ensemble: Arcadia Quartet

    7. Coda: Allegro molto

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Ensemble: Arcadia Quartet

    8. I. Allegro

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Ensemble: Arcadia Quartet

    9. II. Adagio molto

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Ensemble: Arcadia Quartet

    10. III. Scherzo. Alla bulgarese (Vivace)

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Ensemble: Arcadia Quartet

    11. IV. Andante

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Ensemble: Arcadia Quartet

    12. V. Finale: Allegro vivace

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Ensemble: Arcadia Quartet

    13. I. Moderato

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Ensemble: Arcadia Quartet

    14. II. Allegro molto capriccioso

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Ensemble: Arcadia Quartet

    15. III. Lento

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Ensemble: Arcadia Quartet

    16. I. Allegro

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Ensemble: Arcadia Quartet

    17. II. Prestissimo, con sordino

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Ensemble: Arcadia Quartet

    18. III. Non troppo lento

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Ensemble: Arcadia Quartet

    19. IV. Allegretto pizzicato

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Ensemble: Arcadia Quartet

    20. V. Allegro molto

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Ensemble: Arcadia Quartet

    21. I. Mesto - Più mosso, pesante - Vivace

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Ensemble: Arcadia Quartet

    22. II. Mesto - Marcia

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Ensemble: Arcadia Quartet

    23. III. Mesto - Burletta: Moderato

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Ensemble: Arcadia Quartet

    24. IV. Mesto

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Ensemble: Arcadia Quartet


For its very first recording on Chandos, the Arcadia String Quartet presents what has been at the very heart of its musical career and influences: the complete string quartets by Bartók.

With the music of the Hungarian composer, the members of this Romanian ensemble, neighbours of his birthplace, have won such major careershaping competitions as Osaka, the Wigmore Hall, and Hamburg.

Bartók’s attachment to the string quartet – as to no other genre – was to the keystone of the Viennese tradition, but with the aim of moving the medium out of its native city a little, into the countryside of alternative tonalities and rhythms. The six mature works he wrote are being revealed here with all the singular patterns, mixed modalities, bitterness, lamentations, and, at times, bright folk influences which they contain.

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REVIEWS:

Whatever the inspirations, these players are alive to them, just as they are alert to the technical demands lurking around every corner. These Arcadians also find haunting desolation.

– BBC Music Magazine

If I was asked to recommend a Bartók cycle to a first-time listener intimidated by his spiky reputation, I’d send them straight to the Arcadia Quartet. Even for the aficionado, this spacious, big-hearted vision of Bartók as poet, dreamer, and humorist has something distinctive and beautiful to say.

– Gramophone