Béla Bartók: The 6 String Quartets - Takács Quartet
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Brand: TAKACS QUARTETPerformer: Bela Bartok
Orchestra: Edward Dusinberre
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1998-01-13
Music Label: Decca
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- String Quartet No. 1, op. 7 (Sz 40): I. Lento
- String Quartet No. 1, op. 7 (Sz 40): II. Poco a poco accelerando all'allegretto
- String Quartet No. 1, op. 7 (Sz 40): III. Introduzione Allegro - Allegro vivace
- String Quartet No. 3(Sz 85): I. Prima parte: Moderato
- String Quartet No. 3(Sz 85): II. Seconda Parte: Allegro
- String Quartet No. 3(Sz 85): III. Ricapitulazione della prima parte: Moderato - Coda: Allegro molto
- String Quartet No. 5 (Sz 85): I. Allegro
- String Quartet No. 5 (Sz 85): II. Adagio molto
- String Quartet No. 5 (Sz 85): III. Scherzo. Alla bulgarese -- Trio
- String Quartet No. 5 (Sz 85): IV. Andante
- String Quartet No. 5 (Sz 85): V. Finale: Allegro vivace -- Presto
- String Quartet No. 2, op. 17 (Sz 67): I. Moderato
- String Quartet No. 2, op. 17 (Sz 67): II. Allegro molto capriccioso
- String Quartet No. 2, op. 17 (Sz 67): III. Lento
- String Quartet No. 4, (Sz 91): I. Allegro
- String Quartet No. 4, (Sz 91): II. Prestissimo, con sordino
- String Quartet No. 4, (Sz 91): III. Non troppo lento
- String Quartet No. 4, (Sz 91): IV. Allegretto pizzicato
- String Quartet No. 4, (Sz 91): V. Allegro molto
- String Quartet No. 6 (Sz 114): I. Mesto - PiĂš mosso, pesante - Vivace
- String Quartet No. 6 (Sz 114): II. Mesto - Marcia
- String Quartet No. 6 (Sz 114): III. Mesto - Burletta: Moderato
- IV. Mesto
Description of Béla Bartók: The 6 String Quartets - Takács Quartet
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Release Date: 13-JAN-1998
If chamber music suggests merely sedate and timid pleasures, let the Takács Quartet guide you through the profound experience that this medium can convey--above all in the hands of a composer as rich in imagination and innovative in temperament as Béla Bartók. In some ways his cycle of string quartets traces not only his personal creative evolution but the deeply tragic zeitgeist of half a century as well. The Takács Quartet plays with an unfaltering sense for the lifeblood of this music in performances that are both gutsy and ethereal. --Thomas May
Béla Bartók has emerged as one of the few modern masters who continue to be regularly performed and recorded. The six string quartets that span his career from 1908 to 1939 are generally regarded as this century's unsurpassed addition to the medium, and they provide an intimate entrée into the world of their withdrawn and enigmatic composer. With this cycle, the Takács Quartet confirms its reputation, against some very fierce competition, as possibly the most cogent, exciting exponent of this music today. They achieve an unusually successful synthesis of the quartets' polarizing components: lyrically haunting "night music," passages of grotesquely ironic humor, and, in the Sixth Quartet, an unrelentingly pervasive sense of desolation and farewell. In the process, the Takács players give visceral life to the extremities of technique Bartók's scores demand. These range from exaggerated glissandi to pizzicati made to snap violently against the fingerboard, at times producing a sound more akin to a percussion battery than a string quartet. The ensemble convincingly traverses Bartók's creative evolution, from the hothouse romanticism of the First Quartet to the Third's densely packed modernist fury and the palindrome structures of the Fourth and Fifth Quartets. Richly nuanced with local color, these accounts are among the best available on disc and will likely become standard-setters. --Thomas May
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