Debussy / Quartetto Prometeo - Debussy & Szymanowsky: String Quartets - COMPACT DISCS [CD]
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- Genre: Classical
- Description: This is an original coupling on disc - Debussy's sole quartet is nearly always paired with Ravel's - but also a natural and pleasing one, serving to illuminate two lesser-known string quartets with an earlier masterpiece of the genre. Szymanowski's music is saturated with the influence of the two French composers, but his voice is recognizably his own, whether in the three opulent symphonies, the elusive piano-cycles, the opera King Roger that is his masterpiece, or these two string quartets, both composed in 1927. Even so, it is also not difficult to hear an affinity with Bartok's experience, particularly in the Second, where the instrumental language is more experimental, in the employment of trills, ground rhythms, percussive chords, spices that thicken the original sap, never resorting to mere quotations but, as in Bartok, using rhythmic cells as kickstarters for the engine of creation. The First Quartet is much lusher, recalling the endless singing lines of the First Violin Concerto and more obviously looking back to the Impressionism of Debussy, though Debussy's own quartet dates from a pre-Impressionist period when he was just beginning to formulate his own language. In the same year as the quartet, 1892, he began to write Prélude a l'après-midi d'un faune and first saw Maurice Maeterlinck's symbolist drama, Pelléas et Melisande, of which he would produce his own operatic version a decade later. The quartet itself is endlessly satisfying, and any fine new recording has it's own things to say. The Quartetto Prometeo is an Italian ensemble founded in 1998, and now with several albums to their name, including Hugo Wolf's complete music for string quartet (BC94166), which contains 'an illuminating interpretation of the String Quartet that is both athletic and elegant, luxuriating in the work's warmth but also plunging fearlessly into it's icy depths.' (MusicWeb Int
- Artist: DEBUSSY / QUARTETTO PROMETEO
- Title: Debussy & Szymanowsky: String Quartets
- Format: CD
- Label: Brilliant Classics
- Release Date: 01/29/2016
- Genre: Classical
- Number Of Discs: 1
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- Product Name: Debussy / Quartetto Prometeo - Debussy & Szymanowsky: String Quartets - COMPACT DISCS
- UPC: 5028421947440
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