Arcadia Quartet - Weinberg: String Quartets, Vol. 3 (2023) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. String Quartet No. 4 in E-Flat Major, Op. 20: I. Allegro commodo
02. String Quartet No. 4 in E-Flat Major, Op. 20: II. Moderato assai
03. String Quartet No. 4 in E-Flat Major, Op. 20: III. Largo marciale
04. String Quartet No. 4 in E-Flat Major, Op. 20: IV. Allegro moderato
05. String Quartet No. 16 in A-Flat Minor, Op. 130: I. Allegro - Moderato
06. String Quartet No. 16 in A-Flat Minor, Op. 130: II. Allegro - Andantino
07. String Quartet No. 16 in A-Flat Minor, Op. 130: III. Lento
08. String Quartet No. 16 in A-Flat Minor, Op. 130: IV. Moderato

As with the previous volumes in their survey of the quartets of Weinberg, the Arcadia Quartet have selected a pair of works from contrasting stylistic periods of the composer’s output. The Fourth Quartet was composed in 1945, shortly after Weinberg had moved to Moscow. The Quartet presents an abstract, psychologically universal picture – a testimony both to the composer’s artistic maturity and to the affinity that Weinberg had discovered with Shostakovich.

The Sixteenth Quartet was composed between 1 January and 15 February 1981. It carries a dedication to Weinberg’s sister, Ester, who had perished following the Nazi invasion of Poland and would have been sixty that year. Typical of his later compositional style, the writing is more muscular, harmonically complex, and intense.

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