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String Quartets by Opera Composers

String Quartets by Opera Composers
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Composer: Giacomo Puccini
Composer: Ottorino Respighi
Composer: Richard [Classical] Wagner
Composer: Engelbert [Classical] Humperdinck
Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
Performer: Ruth Ziesak
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2008-05-27
Music Label: Mdg
Soundtracks:
  1. Crisantemi 'Elegy' - Engelbert Humperdinck / Giacomo Puccini
  2. Il tramonto - Ottorino Respighi
  3. Albumblatt for Piano in C major 'In das Album der Fürstin Metternich' - Richard Wagner
  4. Quartet for Strings no 3 in C major: 1st movement, Allegro moderato - Engelbert Humperdinck
  5. Quartet for Strings no 3 in C major: 2nd movement, Gemächlich - Engelbert Humperdinck
  6. Quartet for Strings no 3 in C major: 3rd movement, Lebhaft - Engelbert Humperdinck
  7. Quartet for Strings in E minor: 1st movement, Allegro - Giuseppe Verdi
  8. Quartet for Strings in E minor: 2nd movement, Andantino - Giuseppe Verdi
  9. Quartet for Strings in E minor: 3rd movement, Prestissimo - Giuseppe Verdi
  10. Quartet for Strings in E minor: 4th movement, Scherzo-Fugue-Allegro assai mosso - Giuseppe Verdi

Music reviews of String Quartets by Opera Composers

Music Review: E. HUMPERDINCK's String Quartet!...
Rating: 5 Stars

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The original Engelbert Humperdinck (1854-1921)--(whose delightfully colourful name was grossly hijacked and defamed by an absurd 1970s' soft-pop hack [!])--was at the turn-of-the-century a very talented working musician, assistant to Wagner at Bayreuth, and friend to the doomed Hugo Wolf.
(Humperdinck had been a pupil of both Lachner and Rheinberger
Rheinberger: Nonet in F major; Lachner: Nonet in E flat major.)

Humperdinck's String Quartet in C-major was probably written c. 1905. Not too long at :18 mins duration, it is a gorgeous example of Jugendstil esthetic which invokes folkish gestures in an highly organized architectonic structure featuring emotive themes in imaginative episodes suggestive of narrative.
Engelbert Humperdinck: Hänsel und Gretel
Humperdinck: Orchestral Works
Humperdinck: Complete Songs for Voice & Piano
Engelbert Humperdinck: Klavierlieder
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Verdi's e-minor String Quartet (1873) is here nicely performed, with timings closely paralleling the Amadeus' reading.
Amadeus Quartet Plays Bruckner, Smetana, Verdi
Verdi, Puccini: Music for String Quartet
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Puccini's fragrant Chrysanthemums (1890) are richly redolent of the mauve Belle Époque--and far too short at :05 mins; ditto Wagner's Tristanesque Album-Leaf which cleverly suspends harmony for not even :02 mins.
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Besides his noisome symphonic poems, Respighi wrote a piano quintet, two string quartets, a violin sonata, and this unhinged setting of Shelly's "The Sunset."
Respighi: String Quartets
Respighi: Piano Quintet; String Quartet; Six Pieces for Violin and Piano
Strauss, Respighi: Violin Sonatas [Germany]
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The Leipziger String Quartet is splendid as usual on this concept disc which is a little skimpy at 1 hour's duration.
The star here is Humperdinck's Quartet--a rare catch for aficionados of that most refined genre.
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