Written in response to a command from the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge great patron (she still; it always) Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge: American Patron of Music, the first quartet in D major op. 25 was created in 1941 in Los Angeles; It is in four movements and souvre a wonderful Andante sostenuto-Allegro, where thoughtful episodes alternate with motion phases. A work in four movements, full of charm and fantasy, which is that of a composer already master of his own game. Contemporary opera Peter Grimes, the quartet No. 2 op. 36 was established in November 1945 at the Wigmore Hall: a kind of convergence objective will be found there with the quartets of Shostakovich; in three movements, it culminates with a Chaconne (in homage to Henry Purcell), broad movement to variations alone constitutes more than half of the oeuvre. Much later, composed partly in Venice (the last movement sintitule the Serenissima), opera, contemporary shot of the new Thomas MannLa Death in Venice, and created shortly after the composer's death in 1976 by the Amadeus Quartet, the Third Quartet op. 84, adopts an arched shape, its five movements being arranged at an ABABA plan. Originally titled "Divertimento", this enigmatic work is an example of "late style" particularly convincing.
These works were of course already burned several times, especially by the Belcea Quartet at EmiString Quartets Nos. 1-3 (Belcea Quartet). A recording of the quartet seems Endellion simultaneously Warner ClassicsBritten: String Quartets has 1/3.
The Takacs Quartet consists today of:
Edward Dusinberre, violin (born in 1968 in England)
Karoly Schranz, violin (born in 1952 in Budapest)
Geraldine Walther, viola (born in Florida, the orchestra long time member of San Francisco)
Andras Fejer, cello (born 1955, graduated from Franz Liszt Academy of Bupapest)
As is known to all who listened lont concert recently, the Takacs Quartet is one of the best there is today. Compared to other formations, it is characterized by warm and subjective dimension of its interpretations, and the variety of the game that fact that they can sound sometimes modern, sometimes as a mittel-European quartet of yore. What is proposed to us is not only a beauty, a quartet disc among the most successful recently quon could hear (and captured the lesser pizz is a treat): that's all intimate odyssey, loaded of emotions, which is proposed to us, as dune life newspaper.
Sapplique This applies especially to the 3rd quartet: violin Dusinberre is beautiful episode in central Solo, very calm, rapid movements are dintermèdes Figure fugitives, and after introduction in recitative, the final gradually deploys its slow dance Passacaglia in an ambiguous ending, but deeply rewarding for the listener, which takes these interpreters with all the dimension of a farewell.
Similarly, check-the Violin Concerto by Janine Jansen, one may recall, is one of the best recordings of the last concertants annéesBeethoven and Britten: Violin Concertos.
A nen no doubt one of the most endearing releases War Requiem [DVD] War Requiem lon this year celebrates the centenary of the birth of the British composer.
