Berg, Shostakovich & Ligeti: String Quartets

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The Minettis show a marked aff inity for the soundworld of 20th-century string quartet repertoire, rising to the Berg’s tortured passion and performing with characterful range and versatility... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2024, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 1st Dec 2023
Catalogue No: HC23060
Label: Hänssler
Length: 52 minutes

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Berg: String Quartet, Op. 3

Work length20:02

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Minetti Quartet, Maria Ehmer, Anna Knopp, Milan Milojicic, Leonhard Roczek

Langsam

Track length9:37

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Mäßige Viertel

Track length10:25

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Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 7 in F sharp minor, Op. 108

Work length12:03

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Minetti Quartet, Anna Knopp, Milan Milojicic, Leonhard Roczek, Maria Ehmer

Allegretto

Track length3:35

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Lemto

Track length2:56

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Allegro - Allegretto

Track length5:32

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Ligeti: String Quartet No. 1 'Métamorphoses nocturnes'

Work length20:52

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Minetti Quartet, Anna Knopp, Maria Ehmer, Milan Milojicic, Leonhard Roczek

Allegro grazioso

Track length1:30

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Vivace

Track length2:05

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Adagio, mesto

Track length1:55

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Presto

Track length1:10

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Prestissimo

Track length1:36

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Andante tranquillo

Track length2:55

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Tempo di valse, moderato con eleganza, un poco capriccioso

Track length0:54

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Subito prestissimo

Track length1:36

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Allegretto, un poco gioviale

Track length2:36

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Prestissimo

Track length1:40

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Ad libitum, senza misura

Track length2:09

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Lento

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"Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 7 lasts no more than twelve minutes. The composer wrote it in March 1960 and dedicated it to his first wife Nina Vasilyevna Varzar - or rather, to her memory, for she had died five years earlier of an insidious form of cancer; suddenly, and without warning. It Is a very personal work, one that is close to the composer's heart, for here Shostakovich breaks the strict sequence of keys he imposed on himself. Alban Berg's String Quartet No. 1 has 2 movements, bears the opus number 3, and is nevertheless considered the composer's first autonomous work, even though the composer himself points out that he received it personally from Schoenberg. An homage to Arnold Schoenberg, then, who propelled his pupil into an independent career with this journeyman place? Or is it really a declaration of love? While working on his Opus 3, Alban has already been hopelessly In love with Helene for a long while. Georg Alexander, alias Gyorgy Sandor Ligeti, completed his first string quartet in 1954, when he was still living in Budapest at the age of thirty-one and recently divorced. For the second time! His first marriage, to his childhood sweetheart Brigitte, lasted only three years, and the second, to the psychology student Veronika Spitz, was entered into for purely political reasons. In 1952, Veronika, who came from a family of former factory owners, was in danger of being deported to a labour camp by the communist regime in Hungary as a representative of the bourgeoisie, and it was only by getting married to Ligeti that a semblance of protection could be afforded to her. As soon as the danger is averted following the death of Stalin, they divorce as agreed."

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February 2024

The Minettis show a marked aff inity for the soundworld of 20th-century string quartet repertoire, rising to the Berg’s tortured passion and performing with characterful range and versatility in Ligeti’s ‘Métamorphoses nocturnes’. For my money, though, Shostakovich No. 7 is the album’s gem, its sparser textures allowing more room for rhythmic elegance and elasticity.

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