Zemlinsky Quartet - Dvořák: Early Works for String Quartet (2007)

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Artist: Zemlinsky Quartet
Title: Dvořák: Early Works for String Quartet
Year Of Release: 2007
Label: Praga Digitals
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (image+.cue,log,scans)
Total Time: 04:28:20
Total Size: 1.3 Gb
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist:

CD1:
String Quartet No. 5 in F minor, B. 37 (Op.9)
1. 1. Moderato - Allegro con brio
2. 2. Andante con moto quasi allegretto
3. 3. Tempo di valse
4. 4. Allegro molto
String Quartet No. 1 in A major, B. 8 (Op. 2)
5. 1. Andante - Allegro
6. 2. Adagio affetuoso ed appassionato
7. 3. Allegro scherzando - Trio
8. 4. Finale. Allegro animato
Waltzes (2) for strings (arr. from Waltzes for piano, B. 101), B. 105
9. Waltz in A minor - Moderato
10. Waltz in D major - Allegro vivace

CD2:
String Quartet No. 7 in A minor, B. 45 (Op.16)
1. 1. Allegro ma non troppo
2. 2. Andante cantabile
3. 3. Allegro scherzando - Trio
4. 4. Finale. Allegro ma non troppo
String Quartet No. 2 in B flat major, B. 17
5. 1. Allegro ma non troppo
6. 2. Largo
7. 3. Allegro con brio
8. 4. Finale. Andante - Allegro giusto - Allegro con fuoco

CD3:
String Quintet in A minor, B. 7 (Op. 1)
1. 1. Adagio - Allegro ma non troppo
2. 2. Lento
3. 3. Finale. Allegro con brio
String Quartet No. 3 in D major, B. 18
4. 1. Allegro con brio
5. 2. Andantino
6. 3. Allegro energico - Trio
7. 4. Finale. Allegretto
8. String Quartet Movement in F major, B. 120

CD4:
String Quartet No. 6 in A minor, B. 40 (Op.12)
1. 1. Allegro ma non troppo
2. 2. Poco allegro
3. 3. Poco adagio
4. 4. Allegro molto
5. Andante Appasionato, for string quartet in F major, B. 40a
String Quartet No. 4 in E minor, B. 19 (once listed as Op. 9)
6. 1. Velmi pohyblive a rázne [Assai con moto ed energico]
7. 2. Andante religios
8. 3. Allegro con brio

Performers:
Zemlinsky Quartet:
František Souček, violin
Petr Střížek, violin
Petr Holman, viola
Vladimír Fortin, cello

When Antonin Dvorák learned to compose, he did it the old-fashioned way -- by composing. Although he had written numerous shorter works earlier, the 20-year-old Bohemian bestowed his Opus 1 on a three-movement String Quintet in A minor for pairs of violins and violas plus cello in 1861. The next year, he turned out his Opus 2, a four-movement String Quartet in A major, and over the next 12 years, he wrote six more string quartets. Through them, the listener can follow Dvorák's progress from a talented amateur with an inexhaustible gift for melody and little feel for form to an almost-ready-for-the-big-time composer who'd learned to tighten his structures and control his gift for melody. With this four-disc set by the Czech Zemlinsky Quartet (augmented by violist Josef Kluson in the quintet), following Dvorák's development has never been easier. With its warm tone, graceful ensemble, and innate sense of rhythm, the Zemlinsky contains Dvorák's sometimes sprawling forms, restrains his sometimes interminable modulations, and always lets the melodies sing. While these quartets are by no means in the same class as the composer's later works in the same form, listeners who want to find out how Dvorák became Dvorák may want to seek them out. Praga's 2006 digital sound is a bit reserved, but clean and detailed.

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