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Schoenberg: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 3 / Gringolts
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Schoenberg: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 3 / Gringolts

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Details

Composer
Schoenberg, Arnold
Artist
Gringolts Quartet
Format
SACD
Label
BIS
Released
Apr 01, 2022
Catalog #
BIS-2567
UPC
7318599925677

About

Arnold Schoenberg’s second string quartet – included on a previous release by the Gringolts Quartet – is often used as a reference point when the emergence of atonality is discussed. That work, where Schoenberg in the fourth movement suddenly does away with a time signature, was composed in 1907, three years after his first work in the genre: the String Quartet in D minor, Op. 7, a work which still has much in common with the Late Romantic idiom of Richard Strauss. The D minor quartet is in one movement, but with four distinct sections which, according to a note left by the composer, chart a progression from ‘rebellion’ and ‘depression’ to ‘quiet joy and the contemplation of rest and harmony’ – a program reminiscent of the one Strauss had used in his recent tone poem Ein Heldenleben. Albeit tonal, the harmonic language is richly chromatic, pointing forward to the inevitable break in the second quartet. Some twenty years later, Schoenberg had developed his twelve-tone method, and his Third Quartet is an example of how he was using this to refresh traditional form schemes and contrapuntal textures, while at the same time counterbalancing the modern idiom with familiar features such as a slow variation movement and a rondo finale.

Tracklist 8 tracks

  1. 1 Nicht zu rasch - 13:39
    Track
    1
    Title
    Nicht zu rasch -
    Duration
    13:39
    Composer
    Arnold Schoenberg
    Ensemble
    Gringolts Quartet
  2. 2 Kräftig (nicht zu rasch) - 12:15
    Track
    2
    Title
    Kräftig (nicht zu rasch) -
    Duration
    12:15
    Composer
    Arnold Schoenberg
    Ensemble
    Gringolts Quartet
  3. 3 Mässig, langsame Viertel - 12:15
    Track
    3
    Title
    Mässig, langsame Viertel -
    Duration
    12:15
    Composer
    Arnold Schoenberg
    Ensemble
    Gringolts Quartet
  4. 4 Mässig, heiter 08:29
    Track
    4
    Title
    Mässig, heiter
    Duration
    08:29
    Composer
    Arnold Schoenberg
    Ensemble
    Gringolts Quartet
  5. 5 I. Moderato 08:57
    Track
    5
    Title
    I. Moderato
    Duration
    08:57
    Composer
    Arnold Schoenberg
    Ensemble
    Gringolts Quartet
  6. 6 II. Adagio 08:43
    Track
    6
    Title
    II. Adagio
    Duration
    08:43
    Composer
    Arnold Schoenberg
    Ensemble
    Gringolts Quartet
  7. 7 III. Intermezzo: Allegro moderato 07:21
    Track
    7
    Title
    III. Intermezzo: Allegro moderato
    Duration
    07:21
    Composer
    Arnold Schoenberg
    Ensemble
    Gringolts Quartet
  8. 8 IV. Rondo: Molto moderato 06:48
    Track
    8
    Title
    IV. Rondo: Molto moderato
    Duration
    06:48
    Composer
    Arnold Schoenberg
    Ensemble
    Gringolts Quartet