Suk: Complete Works For String Quartet; Piano Quintet / Minguet Quartett

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Label
CPO
Release Date
January 13, 2015
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      SUK, JOSEF
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Minguet Quartet
    • PERFORMER
      Kirschnereit
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      January 13, 2015
    • UPC
      761203765225
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      777652-2
    • LABEL
      CPO
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Chamber Music & Recitals
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Allegro Moderato

      Composer: Josef Suk II

      Ensemble: Minguet Quartett

    2. II. Intermezzo

      Composer: Josef Suk II

      Ensemble: Minguet Quartett

    3. III. Adagio

      Composer: Josef Suk II

      Ensemble: Minguet Quartett

    4. IV. Allegro giocoso

      Composer: Josef Suk II

      Ensemble: Minguet Quartett

    5. Quartet movement in B-Flat Major

      Composer: Josef Suk II

      Ensemble: Minguet Quartett

    6. I. Adagio ma non troppo

      Composer: Josef Suk II

      Ensemble: Minguet Quartett

    7. II. Adagio mesto, molto espressivo

      Composer: Josef Suk II

      Ensemble: Minguet Quartett

    8. III. Adagio mesto

      Composer: Josef Suk II

      Ensemble: Minguet Quartett

    9. IV. Allegretto

      Composer: Josef Suk II

      Ensemble: Minguet Quartett

    10. I. Allegro energico

      Composer: Josef Suk II

      Ensemble: Minguet Quartett

      Performer: Matthias Kirschnereit

    11. II. Adagio

      Composer: Josef Suk II

      Ensemble: Minguet Quartett

      Performer: Matthias Kirschnereit

    12. III. Scherzo: Presto

      Composer: Josef Suk II

      Ensemble: Minguet Quartett

      Performer: Matthias Kirschnereit

    13. IV. Finale: Allegro con fuoco

      Composer: Josef Suk II

      Ensemble: Minguet Quartett

      Performer: Matthias Kirschnereit

    14. Suite, Op. 21: II. Minuet (version for string quartet)

      Composer: Josef Suk II

      Ensemble: Minguet Quartett

    15. Balada (Ballade) in D Minor (version for string quartet)

      Composer: Josef Suk II

      Ensemble: Minguet Quartett

    16. String Quartet in D Minor: II. Barcarolle (1923 version)

      Composer: Josef Suk II

      Ensemble: Minguet Quartett

    17. Meditation on old Bohemian Chorale St. Wenceslas, Op. 35a

      Composer: Josef Suk II

      Ensemble: Minguet Quartett


“In 1912, when my second quartet was performed in Berlin, a tumult arose in the audience that was not far from a tussle. On the one side, shouts of amazement; on the other side, expressions of displeasure and boos. Even Schönberg, who attaches special value to flops, was envious of me because of this flop.” “…our generation too has fought for its ideals and had to wait long and often still is waiting to receive honest and full recognition of its efforts to produce a new musical language, which very often again became the basis for the new aspirations of the younger generation.” These words were not written by an anarchistic innovator but by the euphonious late romanticist Josef Suk. His second string quartet, however, is surely the most ambitious and ‘most modern’ work he penned. In the field of chamber music it also ranks as his most important. For cpo the Minguet Quartet has recorded Suk’s complete œuvre for string quartet – with Matthias Kirschnereit joining them for the early piano quintet.