Quatuor Hermes - Echoes of Vienna - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Vienna was in the grip of serious political unrest that forced many of it's artists into exile when Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957) composed his Second String Quartet in 1933, first performed the following year in the Austrian capital. In it he celebrated, before it faded away, the vitality of a musical school of which Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) had been one of the founders more than a century and a half earlier, and which Anton Webern (1883-1945) had helped to usher into modernity. It is this lineage that the musicians of the Quatuor Hermès (the Hermès String Quartet) highlight through a twilight-tinged programme in which each work bears witness to a fascinating narrative power and could be understood as an expression of a farewell. Album Tracks 1. String Quartet No. 15 in D minor, K.421-Allegro Moderato 2. String Quartet No. 15 in D minor, K.421-Andante 3. String Quartet No. 15 in D minor, K.421-Menuetto E Trio - Allegretto 4. String Quartet No. 15 in D minor, K.421-Allegretto Ma Non Troppo 5. Langsamer Satz Mouvement Lent Pour Quatuor À Cordes / Slow Movement for String Quartet 6. String Quartet No. 2 in E-Flat Major Op. 26-Allegro 7. String Quartet No. 2 in E-Flat Major Op. 26-Intermezzo. Allegro Con Moto 8. String Quartet No. 2 in E-Flat Major Op. 26-Larghetto. Lento 9. String Quartet No. 2 in E-Flat Major Op. 26-Waltz (Finale). Tempo Di Valse