Britten: String Quartets No. 1, 2, 3; Three Divertimenti

Britten: String Quartets No. 1, 2, 3; Three Divertimenti

Britten: String Quartets No. 1, 2, 3; Three Divertimenti
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Composer: Benjamin Britten
Composer: Belcea Quartet
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2005-05-10
Music Label: EMI Classics
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. I. Andante Sostenuto - Allegro Vivo
  2. II. Allegretto Con Slancio
  3. III. Andante Calmo
  4. IV. Molto Vivace
  5. I. Allegro Calmo Senza Rigore
  6. II. Vivace
  7. III. Chacony: Sostenuto
Music CD 2
  1. I. Duets
  2. II. Ostinato
  3. III. Solo
  4. IV. Burlesque
  5. V. Recitative And Passacaglia (La Serenissima)
  6. I. March
  7. II. Waltz
  8. III. Burlesque

Music reviews of Britten: String Quartets No. 1, 2, 3; Three Divertimenti

Music Review: Exceptional Performances
Rating: 5 Stars

I would never have listened to these discs had it not been for an ecstatic Gramophone review. Now, these have become some of my favorite quartets. The First Quartet is the most memorable for me with its shimmering opening. It was written in the US in 1941 and the interaction between the instruments is extraordinary, reflecting a youthful enthusiasm. The Second Quartet followed in 1945 following the premiere of Peter Grimes and was commissioned to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Henry Purcell's birth. The dedication to Purcell comes in the final movement marked Chacony. The quartet is set out as a series of variations where the individual instruments have their own cadenzas in the first movement followed by an engaging Scherzo written with a tarantella theme. The final movement, longer than the first two together, is a reflective passacaglia.

The Third Quartet was written in 1975 and was premiered after the composer's death in December 1976. It is an introspective work which, like Shostakovich's final quartets, is Benjamin Britten's farewell. It is cast in five movements, each containing a quotation from the composer's final opera Death in Venice. The quartet opens with a quiet and introspective movement named Duets. The Burlesque movement is somewhat reminiscent of the Rondo-Burleske of Mahler's Ninth and coming after the gentleness of the opening movements is rather jarring. The final passacaglia movement, titled La Serrenissima, is the composer's elegy on the end of life. The recording includes the Three Divertimenti from 1936, movements left from a projected longer work of character movements.

The Belcea Quartet gives superb and sensitive performances of the quartets and the recordings are perfectly engineered. If one knows only the operas of Benjamin Britten the string quartets add a dimension that demands attention.
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