Grechaninov: String Quartets No 2 & 4 / Moyzes Quartet

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Label
Marco Polo
Release Date
May 10, 1994
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      GRECHANINOV
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Moyzes Quartet
    • PERFORMER
      Moyzes Quartet
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      May 10, 1994
    • UPC
      730099364621
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      8223646
    • LABEL
      Marco Polo
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Chamber Music & Recitals
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Lento

      Composer: Alexander Gretchaninov

      Ensemble: Moyzesovo kvarteto

    2. II. Scherzo: Allegro vivace

      Composer: Alexander Gretchaninov

      Ensemble: Moyzesovo kvarteto

    3. III. Largo

      Composer: Alexander Gretchaninov

      Ensemble: Moyzesovo kvarteto

    4. IV. Finale: Allegro

      Composer: Alexander Gretchaninov

      Ensemble: Moyzesovo kvarteto

    5. I. Allegro moderato

      Composer: Alexander Gretchaninov

      Ensemble: Moyzesovo kvarteto

    6. II. Maestoso assai

      Composer: Alexander Gretchaninov

      Ensemble: Moyzesovo kvarteto

    7. III. Allegro vivo

      Composer: Alexander Gretchaninov

      Ensemble: Moyzesovo kvarteto

    8. IV. Lento, ma non troppo - Vivo

      Composer: Alexander Gretchaninov

      Ensemble: Moyzesovo kvarteto


The career of Alexander Grechaninov (1864-1956), like Rachmaninov’s, bridged the Tsarist and Soviet eras. He, too, emigrated to America and wrote in a style that barely acknowledged musical advances in Europe and elsewhere. Yet these quartets reveal a fecund creative mind, with music suffused with Russian melodic patterns, even if the Fourth Quartet (1929) moves very little further along the road of musical history from his already assured Second (1913). These performances have plenty of personality and the sound is excellent.

-- Matthew Rye, BBC Music Magazine