Via Nova Quartett - Graaf: 5 String Quartets (2015)

Tracklist
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01. String Quartet No. 4 in D Major, Op. 17: I. Adagio
02. String Quartet No. 4 in D Major, Op. 17: II. Allegro
03. String Quartet No. 4 in D Major, Op. 17: III. Grazioso
04. String Quartet No. 6 in F Major: I. Largo
05. String Quartet No. 6 in F Major: II. Fuga
06. String Quartet No. 6 in F Major: III. Andantino con variatione
07. String Quartet No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 17: I. Allegro
08. String Quartet No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 17: II. Largo
09. String Quartet No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 17: III. Allegro
10. String Quartet No. 4 in D Major: I. Adagio
11. String Quartet No. 4 in D Major: II. Allegro
12. String Quartet No. 4 in D Major: III. Gratioso
13. String Quartet No. 3 in G Major, Op. 17: I. Allegro
14. String Quartet No. 3 in G Major, Op. 17: II. Adagio
15. String Quartet No. 3 in G Major, Op. 17: III. Presto

Graf’s music documents his stylistic development from the baroque to classicism. Graf was a pioneer, linking heterogeneous melodic ideas in order to sequence and vary them or to have them imitated in playful alternation and contrasted with chromatic counterparts. Structurally, Graf’s music aimed at clarity and intelligibility – true to the ideals of Enlightenment aesthetics. The Via Nova Quartet interprets his five string quartets on historical instruments.