Tchaikovsky: The String Quartets & Sextet

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this new set can be recommended unhesitatingly as a modern complete recording of the quartets and the Sextet. — Fanfare, March/April 2020 More…

Release Date: 30th Aug 2019
Catalogue No: 555292-2
Label: CPO
Length: 2 hours 25 minutes

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Tchaikovsky: String Quartet No. 1 in D major, Op. 11

Work length29:00

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$9.05

Quatuor Danel

I. Moderato e simplice

Track length11:06

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II. Andante cantabile

Track length7:00

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III. Scherzo. Allegro non tanto e con fuoco

Track length3:58

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IV. Finale. Allegro giusto

Track length6:56

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Tchaikovsky: String Quartet No. 2 in F major, Op. 22

Work length34:50

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Quatuor Danel

I. Adagio - Moderato assai

Track length12:15

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II. Scherzo. Allegro giusto

Track length5:13

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III. Andante ma non tanto

Track length11:21

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IV. Finale. Allegro con moto

Track length6:01

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Tchaikovsky: String Quartet movement in B flat major (1865)

Work length12:09

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Quatuor Danel

Tchaikovsky: String Quartet No. 3 in E flat minor, Op. 30

Work length35:27

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Quatuor Danel

I. Andante sostenuto - Allegro moderato

Track length16:07

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II. Allegretto vivo e scherzando

Track length4:02

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III. Andante funebre e doloroso, ma con moto

Track length9:16

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IV. Finale. Allegro non troppo e risoluto

Track length6:02

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Tchaikovsky: Souvenir de Florence, Op. 70

Work length34:06

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Vladimír Bukač (viola), Petr Prause (cello)
Quatuor Danel

I. Allegro con spirito

Track length10:38

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II. Adagio cantabile e con moto

Track length9:55

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III. Allegro moderato

Track length6:27

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IV. Allegro vivace

Track length7:06

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Between the operas and ballets, the symphonies, tone poems, and concertos, and the songs and piano miniatures representing most of the significant entries in Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s work catalogue, the major genres of string chamber music register their presence as a salient minority. However, these works merit our full attention because they range over practically the whole of Tchaikovsky’s compositional horizon – from the rising of his creative sun to its premature setting. The Quartet Movement in B flat major from his final years as a student already attests to his narrative ambitions as a composer. Between 1871 and 1876, in his three full-size quartets, he then succeeded in producing a compelling synthesis consisting of discipline and boundless imagination, folkloristic nuances and individual expressivity, and transparency of compositional technique and impassioned communicativeness. In 1890, riding on the wave of his last worldwide opera success (The Queen of Spades), Tchaikovsky drew on his memories of Florence for his String Sextet, in order to cross over the border separating chamber music from symphonic music. The dreams and passions captured in this powerful work, its wealth of ideas, and its pure joie de vivre end up calling into question all the speculations concerning the circumstances surrounding his unfortunate death.

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March/April 2020

this new set can be recommended unhesitatingly as a modern complete recording of the quartets and the Sextet.

Awards Issue 2019

Though this is very much a 21st-century approach to Tchaikovsky, the Danels don’t hesitate to wear their hearts on their sleeves – just not always, perhaps, in the exact places where convention might lead you to expect it. A fascinating set, then, coupled to a Souvenir de Florence of supercharged verve and almost orchestral lushness.

Tchaikovsky: The String Quartets & Sextet

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