Julian Steckel, Anna Reszniak, Antje Weithaas, Tanja Tetzlaff, Byol Kang, Barbara Buntrock and Timothy Ridout - Tchaikovsky & Borodin: String Quartets No. 2 (2019) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist
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01. String Quartet No. 2 in D Major: I. Allegro moderato
02. String Quartet No. 2 in D Major: II. Scherzo. Allegro
03. String Quartet No. 2 in D Major: III. Andante
04. String Quartet No. 2 in D Major: IV. Finale. Andante-Vivace
05. String Quartet No. 2 in F Major, Op. 22: I. Adagio. Moderato assai
06. String Quartet No. 2 in F Major, Op. 22: II. Scherzo. Allergo giusto
07. String Quartet No. 2 in F Major, Op. 22: III. Andante ma non tanto
08. String Quartet No. 2 in F Major, Op. 22: IV. Finale. Allegro con moto


„Many Russian instrumental works of the 19th century were based on a programme, and the same holds true of Alexander Borodin’s Second String Quartet. Here the underlying subject was the great love he felt for his wife Ekaterina. In 1877, the composer (who was also a doctor and a chemist) travelled to Heidelberg, where he had met her 16 years earlier. In letters he described to her how he was returning to the spots they had visited together, and added: “I would give anything to have you here at my side.” Borodin finished writing the D Major Quartet on a date that was likewise symbolic: on 10 August 1881, their twentieth anniversary. ……“ (from the liner notes by Mathias Corvin)

Antje Weithaas, violin
Byol Kang, violin
Anna Reszniak, violin
Timothy Ridout, viola
Barbara Buntrock, viola
Tanja Tetzlaff, cello
Julian Steckel, cello

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