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Alexander von Zemlinsky: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 3

by Zemlinsky Quartet

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String Quartet No. 1 in A Major, Op. 4 I. Allegro con fuoco 10:26
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String Quartet No. 1 in A Major, Op. 4 II. Allegretto 04:13
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String Quartet No. 1 in A Major, Op. 4 III. Breit und kräftig 06:42
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String Quartet No. 1 in A Major, Op. 4 IV. Vivace con fuoco 07:24
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String Quartet No. 3, Op. 19 I. Allegretto 07:27
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String Quartet No. 3, Op. 19 II. Thema mit Variationen 05:26
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String Quartet No. 3, Op. 19 III. Romanza 04:27
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String Quartet No. 3, Op. 19 IV. Burleske 05:07
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Begun on 9 July 1896, the Quartet Op. 4 of Zemlinsky was first performed on 2 December in Vienna. With a traditional four-movement layout, it illustrates the rigour with which the author approached the problems of form while allowing the influence of Wagner through the harmonic treatment of the sweeping opening Allegro, also recalling the conviviality and despair of late Schubert. ¬The Allegretto, similar to the fantasizing of a Hugo Wolf, makes use of imaginary German songs, while the third movement, ‘Breit und kräftig’, attempts broad eminently Brahmsian respiration and intense by a neo-Beethoven impetuousness. ¬This Quartet No. 1 concludes with a Vivace con fuoco, close to a moto perpetuo, which once again pays tribute to Schubert and Bruckner. The Quartet No. 3 Op. 19, premiered on 26 October 1924, achevied one of Zemlinsky objectives: rigorous respect of form, invention combining nervous writing sustained by contrapuntal work of rare density. Expressionistic message conveyed with an economy that is fully Webernian in terms of richness of colour and polyphonic treatment; de facto a postlude to the musical and spiritual exoticism of the Lyric Symphony Op. 18

Awards: Gramophone Editor’s Choice, 5 Diapasons, Arte, Parutions.com, Klassik.com"


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released September 1, 2007

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