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Weigl: String Quartets Nos. 7 & 8 / Thomas Christian Ensemble
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Weigl: String Quartets Nos. 7 & 8 / Thomas Christian Ensemble

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Composer
WEIGL, KARL
Artist
THOMAS CHRISTIAN ENSEMBLE
Format
CD
Label
CPO
Released
Jul 03, 2020
Catalog #
555201-2
UPC
761203520121

About

Following Karl Weigl’s Cello Concerto, we are now releasing his last two String Quartets, his seventh and eighth such works, which were neither commissioned works nor performed during his lifetime. The premiere of Quartet No. 7 was held at the Austrian Institute in New York in 1956, seven years after the composer’s death, and the Concord Quartet premiered Quartet No. 8 at Lincoln Center in New York only years later, in 1973. Weigl completed his next-to-last quartet in January 1942 and in this work much more clearly than in its successor adheres to the finely felt lyricism generally distinguishing him as a composer. It is a work without »screams« and hardly anything would lead us to suspect that it is not a composition from Weigl’s years in Vienna. The same cannot be said of his eighth and last quartet. Weigl knew how to shock his listeners without needing to seek refuge in unresolved dissonances. And this quartet indeed is shocking. The first movement is blunt and mysterious at one and the same time. With its dotted motif the fugued development section strives toward a coda that in the end modulates from minor to major without prior warning. An agonizing but tender melancholy marks the following movement: only Weigl was able to send waves of gloomy brooding through such gentle pondering. The conclusion has the effect of a lonely, mute scream in the night.

Tracklist 8 tracks

  1. 1 I. Andante 07:30
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Andante
    Duration
    07:30
    Composer
    Karl Weigl
    Ensemble
    Thomas Christian Ensemble
  2. 2 II. Allegro molto 06:46
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Allegro molto
    Duration
    06:46
    Composer
    Karl Weigl
    Ensemble
    Thomas Christian Ensemble
  3. 3 III. Adagio 10:45
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Adagio
    Duration
    10:45
    Composer
    Karl Weigl
    Ensemble
    Thomas Christian Ensemble
  4. 4 IV. Allegro 05:09
    Track
    4
    Title
    IV. Allegro
    Duration
    05:09
    Composer
    Karl Weigl
    Ensemble
    Thomas Christian Ensemble
  5. 5 I. Allegro non troppo, ma con brio 05:54
    Track
    5
    Title
    I. Allegro non troppo, ma con brio
    Duration
    05:54
    Composer
    Karl Weigl
    Ensemble
    Thomas Christian Ensemble
  6. 6 II. Andante 07:38
    Track
    6
    Title
    II. Andante
    Duration
    07:38
    Composer
    Karl Weigl
    Ensemble
    Thomas Christian Ensemble
  7. 7 III. Allegro moderato 03:51
    Track
    7
    Title
    III. Allegro moderato
    Duration
    03:51
    Composer
    Karl Weigl
    Ensemble
    Thomas Christian Ensemble
  8. 8 IV. Adagio 06:34
    Track
    8
    Title
    IV. Adagio
    Duration
    06:34
    Composer
    Karl Weigl
    Ensemble
    Thomas Christian Ensemble