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Weinberg: String Quartets Nos. 1, 7 & 11, Vol. 2

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Catalogue numberCHAN20174W
Release date2022-05-13
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Orig. sample rate96000 Hz

For this the second volume in their series of Weinberg’s string quartets, the Arcadia Quartet again presents three quartets from contrasting periods in the stylistic development of the composer. The first quartet of the self-taught teenager, written in 1937, in what Weinberg later described as his ‘neo-impressionist’ style, was heavily revised later in his life, and eventually republished as Op. 141, in 1985. (It is this revised version that has been recorded here, the original version surviving only in manuscript form, in places virtually illegible.) The seventh quartet dates from 1957, after a gap of twenty turbulent years that had witnessed the emigration of Weinberg from Poland to Russia, his introduction to Shostakovich, and his experience of censorship and imprisonment in 1953. In contrast to his earlier quartets, the mood is more intimate and withdrawn, yet defiant. The eleventh quartet was composed between 13 October 1965 and 25 December 1966, at a time when Weinberg was mulling over the composition of his first opera, The Passenger. It is dedicated to his first daughter, Victoria, and was premièred by the Borodin Quartet on 13 April 1967 in the Chamber Hall of the Moscow Conservatoire.
 
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  Composer: Mieczyslaw Weinberg
  String Quartet No. 1, Op. 2/141 20:51
01 String Quartet No. 1, Op. 2/141: I. Allegro comodo 07:21 $ 0.99 USD
02 String Quartet No. 1, Op. 2/141: II. Andante tranquillo 06:25 $ 0.87 USD
03 String Quartet No. 1, Op. 2/141: III. Allegro molto 07:05 $ 0.96 USD
 
 
  Composer: Mieczyslaw Weinberg
  String Quartet No. 7, Op. 59 27:50
04 String Quartet No. 7, Op. 59: I. Adagio 08:50 $ 1.19 USD
05 String Quartet No. 7, Op. 59: II. Allegretto 05:43 $ 0.77 USD
06 String Quartet No. 7, Op. 59: III. Adagio 13:17 $ 1.79 USD
 
 
  Composer: Mieczyslaw Weinberg
  String Quartet No. 11, Op. 89 20:58
07 String Quartet No. 11, Op. 89: I. Allegro assai 06:33 $ 0.88 USD
08 String Quartet No. 11, Op. 89: II. Allegretto - Coda 03:06 $ 0.42 USD
09 String Quartet No. 11, Op. 89: III. Adagio semplice 05:13 $ 0.70 USD
10 String Quartet No. 11, Op. 89: IV. Allegro leggiero 06:06 $ 0.82 USD
 
  Album total 69:39
ArtistArcadia Quartet
ComposerMieczyslaw Weinberg

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