Berg, Webern, Schonberg: Chamber Music / Belcea Quartet

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Release Date
October 30, 2015
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      WEBERN BERG SCHONBERG
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Belcea Quartet (Belca
    • PERFORMER
      Schacher, Chorzelski, Lederlin), Bone, Meneses
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      October 30, 2015
    • UPC
      3760014192098
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      ALPHA209
    • LABEL
      Alpha
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Chamber Music & Recitals
    Works ⌄

    1. Langsamer Satz

      Composer: Anton Webern

      Ensemble: Belcea Quartet

    2. I. Heftig bewegt

      Composer: Anton Webern

      Ensemble: Belcea Quartet

    3. II. Sehr langsam

      Composer: Anton Webern

      Ensemble: Belcea Quartet

    4. III. Sehr bewegt

      Composer: Anton Webern

      Ensemble: Belcea Quartet

    5. IV. Sehr langsam

      Composer: Anton Webern

      Ensemble: Belcea Quartet

    6. V. In zarter Bewegung

      Composer: Anton Webern

      Ensemble: Belcea Quartet

    7. I. Allegretto gioviale

      Composer: Alban Berg

      Ensemble: Belcea Quartet

    8. II. Andante amoroso

      Composer: Alban Berg

      Ensemble: Belcea Quartet

    9. III. Allegro misterioso

      Composer: Alban Berg

      Ensemble: Belcea Quartet

    10. IV. Adagio appassionato

      Composer: Alban Berg

      Ensemble: Belcea Quartet

    11. V. Presto delirando

      Composer: Alban Berg

      Ensemble: Belcea Quartet

    12. VI. Largo desolato

      Composer: Alban Berg

      Ensemble: Belcea Quartet

    13. Sehr langsam

      Composer: Arnold Schoenberg

      Ensemble: Belcea Quartet

      Performer: Nicolas Bone, Antônio Meneses

    14. Breiter

      Composer: Arnold Schoenberg

      Ensemble: Belcea Quartet

      Performer: Nicolas Bone, Antônio Meneses

    15. Schwer betont

      Composer: Arnold Schoenberg

      Ensemble: Belcea Quartet

      Performer: Nicolas Bone, Antônio Meneses

    16. Sehr breit und langsam

      Composer: Arnold Schoenberg

      Ensemble: Belcea Quartet

      Performer: Nicolas Bone, Antônio Meneses

    17. Sehr ruhig

      Composer: Arnold Schoenberg

      Ensemble: Belcea Quartet

      Performer: Nicolas Bone, Antônio Meneses


On the Belceas’ disc, the [Berg] Lyric Suite fidgets at the centre of a Second Viennese School primer. The [Webern] Langsamer Satz is slow only according to the clock, nervous and more dissonant than usual, in expressive terms – there are no wrong notes – with an acute sense of timing as, at the movement’s halfway stage (4'40"), Webern looks back on himself and this voluptuous dream of C major with mingled nostalgia and regret. In the Five Movements, Op 5, the Belceas’ muted, breathless approach is no less effective than the extrovert technical accomplishment and timbral extremes of the LaSalle Quartet, and in the slow second and fourth movements, when they contrive to play on the very edge of audibility, more to the point. Their [Schoenberg] Verklärte Nacht bucks the trend of recent slow and solemn performances – the Achilles heel of the orchestration being that it draws the piece closer to Metamorphosen than Erwartung – and is fitted closely to Dehmel’s lascivious storyline. - Gramophone