Artist: Engegård Quartet
Album: String Quartets, Vol. IV: Schubert, Ratkje, Britten, Haydn
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2014
Audio Format: FLAC (tracks) 24bit, 352.8 kHz
Duration: 01:37:41
Total Tracks: 12
Total Size: 4,49 GB
Tracklist:
String Quartet No. 13 in A minor D. 804, Op. 29, “Rosamunde”
1 Allegro ma non troppo 13:02
2 Andante 7:16
3 Minuetto 7:02
4 Allegro moderato 7:23
Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje (1973-)
Tale of Lead and Light (2011)
5 String Quartet No. 1 11:26
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
String Quartet No. 2 in C major, Op. 36
6 Allegro calmo senza rigore 7:47
7 Vivace 3:34
8 Chacony 16:26
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
String Quartet in C major, Op. 76, No. 3, “Emperor”
9 Allegro 7:00
10 Poco adagio, Cantabile 6:55
11 Menuet – Allegro 4:14
12 Finale – Presto 5:30
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It is a tribute to Benjamin Britten’s inherent “joie de vivre” that optimism and love triumph in his Second String Quartet (1945), composed just after the 2nd World War. The quartet reaches its emotional climax in the magnificent Chacony, a passacaglia with no less than 21 variations, inspired by Henry Purcell. Britten’s 2nd string quartet received its premiere on the 21st November 1945, 250 years to the day after Henry Purcell’s death.
Recording Joseph Haydn’s Op. 76 No. 5 on our debut CD in 2008 inspired us to include the complete opus, arguably Haydn’s greatest string quartet collection, in our repertoire as soon as possible. The heart of the Emperor Quartet, Opus 76/3 is also the most well known movement, Poco adagio. Haydn composed the psalm that he subsequently used as the theme of this movement after a prolonged stay in England. Something of a celebrity, Haydn mingled with the royals, and his admiration for the British national anthem inspired him to compose a tribute to Emperor Francis II. It was later used first as the Austrian and then as the German national anthem. Haydn used a musical cryptogram of the first line of the Anthem, “Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser” to create the opening theme of the first movement, using the first letters of each word in the German text. g e f d k/c, are the exact musical notes of the main theme in the Allegro. The simplest ideas are often the best!