16 Strijkinstrumenten klassiek / romantiek
Haydn is de uitvinder van het strijkkwartet. De beginselen ontstonden tijdens muziekavonden in het landhuis van baron von Fürnberg, aan de Donau. De vier spelers op deze avonden waren de butler, de plaatselijke priester, een locale cellist en Haydn zelf. Voor dit illustere gezelschap componeerde Haydn zijn eerste kwartetmuziek. Gaandeweg ontstond het genre ‘strijkkwartet’, gevormd door twee violen, altviool en cello. Naast strijkkwartetten zijn er ook schitterende trio’s, kwintetten en sextetten voor strijkinstrumenten gecomponeerd.
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Luister op de cd’s naar de mooiste klassieke en romantische kamermuziek voor strijkinstrumenten.
De Engelse teksten bij de cd's komen uit de bijbehorende booklets of uit recensies.
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 HAYDNString Quartets Op. 20 'Sun', Nos 4 - 6 Kodaly Quartet The so called Sun Quartets, Opus 20, were written in 1772 and published two years later. The title is given after the title-page design of a rising sun. They form an important stage in the development of the form, which now assumes full maturity. Musical interest is divided now more equally between the four instruments. |
| String Quartet, Op. 20, No 6: II. Adagio |
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HAYDN String Quartets Op. 76 No 1 / No 2 'Fifths' / No 3 'Emperor' Kodaly Quartet Quartet Op. 76 No 3 has become known as the Kaiserquartett (Emperor Quartet) because of the second movement theme, Haydn's own Emperor's Hymn, written for the birthday of Emperor Franz after the composer's return from his second visit to England, where God Save the King had impressed him. |
| String Quartet No 3 'Emperor': II. Poco adagio, cantabile |
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HAYDN String Quartets Op. 76 No 4 'Sunrise' / No 5 / No 6 Kodaly Quartet The fourth of the Op. 76 quartets has won in England the descriptive title 'The Sunrise', an ingenuouscomment on the opening of the first movement, in which the first violin opens with an ascending phrase over the sustained chord of the other instruments, its counterpart the descending phrase later proposed by the cello. |
| String Quartet 'Sunrise': I. Allegro con spirito |
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MENDELSSOHN String Quartets Vol. 2 String Quartet 1 /String Quartet 4 / String Quartet in E Flat Major Aurora String Quartet Mendelssohn admired and studied Beethoven's music. There are many examples of Beethoven's influences in the symphonies, piano music, songs and chamber music. Mendelssohn studied the older master's quartets before venturing to compose a quartet himself and as a result Beethoven's quartets have found an echo in Mendelssohn's creations. (From the CD Booklet) |
| String Quartet 1: II. Canzonetta |
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TCHAIKOVSKY String Quartets Vol. 1 String Quartet 1 / String Quartet 2 New Haydn Quartet Arguably the greatest 19th-century Russian composer, for whose music the public appears to have an insatiable appetite, Tchaikovsky had a natural gift for beautiful and deeply expressive melodies which, in his most successful works, was allied to a hoard-won and often original compositional technique. |
| String Quartet 1: II. Andante cantabile |
