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Debussy & Szymanowski: Quartets

Contemporary Romantic Dramatic Virtuosic
$20.99

Details

Composer
Claude Debussy, Karol Szymanowski
Artist
Belcea Quartet
Format
CD
Label
Alpha
Released
Nov 28, 2025
Catalog #
ALPHA1074
UPC
3701624510742

About

This is the new recording we have been waiting for. Three years after Brahms (ALPHA792), the Belcea Quartet returns in a new formation: Suyeon Kang, their new second violin, joined the quartet in 2023. Today the Belcea Quartet presents a new recording of the Debussy Quartet - which they had previously recorded on their very first album 25 years ago - and two quartets by Karol Szymanowski, a composer they are particularly fond of and who possesses a unique and immediately identifiable musical language. The first quartet was composed in 1917 but the Russian Revolution intervened; it's premiere finally took place in 1924. Szymanowski - then a world-renowned composer and a leading figure in the reconstruction of musical life in the young Polish Republic - wrote his second quartet ten years after the first in 1927; it was premiered in Warsaw two years later.

Tracklist 10 tracks

  1. 1 I. Animé et très décidé 06:51
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Animé et très décidé
    Duration
    06:51
    Composer
    Claude Debussy
    Ensemble
    Belcea Quartet
  2. 2 II. Assez vif et bien rythmé 03:59
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Assez vif et bien rythmé
    Duration
    03:59
    Composer
    Claude Debussy
    Ensemble
    Belcea Quartet
  3. 3 III. Andantino doucement expressif 07:51
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Andantino doucement expressif
    Duration
    07:51
    Composer
    Claude Debussy
    Ensemble
    Belcea Quartet
  4. 4 IV. Très modéré 08:06
    Track
    4
    Title
    IV. Très modéré
    Duration
    08:06
    Composer
    Claude Debussy
    Ensemble
    Belcea Quartet
  5. 5 I. Lento assai - Allegro moderato 07:53
    Track
    5
    Title
    I. Lento assai - Allegro moderato
    Duration
    07:53
    Composer
    Karol Szymanowski
    Ensemble
    Belcea Quartet
  6. 6 II. Andantino semplice. In modo d'una canzone - Adagio dolcissimo - Lento assai 06:17
    Track
    6
    Title
    II. Andantino semplice. In modo d'una canzone - Adagio dolcissimo - Lento assai
    Duration
    06:17
    Composer
    Karol Szymanowski
    Ensemble
    Belcea Quartet
  7. 7 III. Vivace - Scherzando alla burlesca - Vivace ma non troppo 04:21
    Track
    7
    Title
    III. Vivace - Scherzando alla burlesca - Vivace ma non troppo
    Duration
    04:21
    Composer
    Karol Szymanowski
    Ensemble
    Belcea Quartet
  8. 8 I. Moderato dolce e tranquillo 08:23
    Track
    8
    Title
    I. Moderato dolce e tranquillo
    Duration
    08:23
    Composer
    Karol Szymanowski
    Ensemble
    Belcea Quartet
  9. 9 II. Vivace, scherzando 04:38
    Track
    9
    Title
    II. Vivace, scherzando
    Duration
    04:38
    Composer
    Karol Szymanowski
    Ensemble
    Belcea Quartet
  10. 10 III. Lento - Moderato 06:30
    Track
    10
    Title
    III. Lento - Moderato
    Duration
    06:30
    Composer
    Karol Szymanowski
    Ensemble
    Belcea Quartet