The RIAS Amadeus Quartet Recordings Vol. 4: Modernism: Berlin 1950-56

Release Date: 6th Apr 2015
Catalogue No: AUDITE21429
Label: Audite
Series: The RIAS Amadeus Quartet Recordings
Length: 2 hours 18 minutes

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Britten: String Quartet No. 2 in C major, Op. 36

Work length26:49

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Amadeus Quartet

I. Allegro calmo senza rigore

Track length8:50

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II. Vivace

Track length3:41

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III. Chacony: Sostenuto

Track length14:18

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Tippett: String Quartet No. 2

Work length21:54

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Amadeus Quartet

I. Allegro grazioso

Track length6:36

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II. Andante

Track length5:44

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III. Presto

Track length3:06

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IV. Allegro appassionato

Track length6:28

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Purcell: Chacony

Work length6:29

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Amadeus Quartet

Purcell: Fantazia 7 in C minor, Z. 738

Work length3:42

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Amadeus Quartet

Purcell: Fantazia 9 in A minor, Z. 740

Work length2:50

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Amadeus Quartet

Seiber: String Quartet No. 3, "Quartetto lirico"

Work length22:35

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Amadeus Quartet

I. Andante amabile

Track length7:39

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II. Allegretto scherzando e leggiero

Track length5:13

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III. Lento espressivo

Track length9:43

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Bartók: String Quartet No. 4, Sz 91

Work length22:51

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Amadeus Quartet

I. Allegro

Track length5:32

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II. Prestissimo, con sordino

Track length3:04

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III. Non troppo lento

Track length5:29

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IV. Allegretto pizzicato

Track length3:12

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V. Allegro molto

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Bartók: String Quartet No. 6, Sz 114

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Amadeus Quartet

I. Mesto - Più mosso, pesante - Vivace

Track length7:42

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II. Mesto - Marcia

Track length8:05

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III. Mesto - Burletta: Moderato

Track length7:42

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IV. Mesto

Track length8:14

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Volume IV in the series The RIAS Amadeus Quartet Recordings presents the ensemble with 20th century Hungarian and English works. The Baroque composer Henry Purcell is also represented – as a reference point for Benjamin Britten’s Second String Quartet. This edition substantially broadens the view of the Amadeus Quartet and demonstrates the inquisitiveness and assuredness with which Norbert Brainin and his three colleagues explored the music of their contemporaries.

Prompts to follow this path came from fellow musicians and colleagues at London’s Morley College. Under the direction of Michael Tippett, a group of young composers, including Mátyás Seiber and Peter Racine Fricker, wrote their new string quartets for the Amadeus Quartet. Apart from Michael Tippett, it was first and foremost Benjamin Britten who, around 1950, established his reputation as Britain’s most renowned composer. His Second String Quartet was conceived as a reminiscence of Henry Purcell, a progenitor of English music, for the 250th anniversary of his death. Two of Purcell’s string fantasias and a chaconne, on which Britten had based his work, have therefore been included in this edition. They are released for the first time in the Amadeus Quartet’s interpretation.

The Hungarian composer Mátyás Seiber – who, like the members of the Amadeus Quartet, had to emigrate to Britain after the Nazis had seized power in Germany – wrote his Quartetto lirico in the spirit of the Viennese School, particularly that of Alban Berg. He also championed the string quartets of his fellow countryman Béla Bartók, whose Fourth and Sixth Quartets are also available for the first time as performances by the Amadeus Quartet.

The audite series The RIAS Amadeus Quartet Recordings, scheduled to include six volumes, exclusively presents performances released for the first time on CD.

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