In the Moment: Short Pieces for String Quartet / Arabella String Quartet

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Naxos
Release Date
May 12, 2017
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      SCHUBERT DVORAK: SHOSTAKOVICH
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Arabella Quartet
    • PERFORMER
      ARABELLA QUARTET
    Product Details ⌄
    Works ⌄

    1. La Oración del Torero, Op. 34 (version for string quartet)

      Composer: Joaquín Turina

      Ensemble: Arabella String Quartet

    2. Langsamer Satz

      Composer: Anton Webern

      Ensemble: Arabella String Quartet

    3. Andante sostenuto and Variations in E Major, Op. 81, No. 1, MWV R34

      Composer: Felix Mendelssohn

      Ensemble: Arabella String Quartet

    4. No. 1. Elegy: Adagio (arr. from Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, Op. 29, Act I Scene 3: Zherebyonok k kobylke toropitsa)

      Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich

      Ensemble: Arabella String Quartet

    5. No. 2. Polka: Allegretto (arr. from The Golden Age Suite, Op. 22a: III. Polka)

      Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich

      Ensemble: Arabella String Quartet

    6. Ved en ung Kunstners Baare (At the Bier of a Young Artist), FS 58 (version for string quartet)

      Composer: Carl Nielsen

      Ensemble: Arabella String Quartet

    7. Serenade in G Major, "Italienische Serenade" (Italian Serenade)

      Composer: Hugo Wolf

      Ensemble: Arabella String Quartet

    8. Crisantemi

      Composer: Giacomo Puccini

      Ensemble: Arabella String Quartet

    9. Scherzo in A Minor, Op. 81, No. 2, MWV R35

      Composer: Felix Mendelssohn

      Ensemble: Arabella String Quartet

    10. No. 1 in A Major

      Composer: Antonín Dvořák

      Ensemble: Arabella String Quartet

    11. No. 2 in D-Flat Major

      Composer: Antonín Dvořák

      Ensemble: Arabella String Quartet

    12. String Quartet No. 12 in C Minor, D. 703, "Quartettsatz"

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Ensemble: Arabella String Quartet

    13. Capriccio in E Minor, Op. 81, No. 3, MWV R32

      Composer: Felix Mendelssohn

      Ensemble: Arabella String Quartet


Time, place and mood are explored in this unusual programme that reveals the inventive curiosity of the Arabella Quartet, lauded by the Boston Musical Intelligencer for its "freedom, drive, and risk-taking". The geographical span is wide, from Spain to Russia, and traditional staples by Schubert sit alongside meditative statements on human themes by Puccini, Turina, Webern and Nielsen. Shostakovich's Two Pieces for String Quartet were rediscovered in the 1980s and broaden the expressive range of this fascinating disc.