Chiaroscuro Quartet
AP051 - 1CD - 57' - Mar 25, 2013
After a highly acclaimed first recording (BBC Music Choice, Strad, Choc de Classica, ffff de Télérama...), the Chiaroscuro Quartet continues to interpret the string quartet repertoire of the classical period, on period instruments.
Their resolutely committed and imaginative approach is evident in the works featured on this recording: Beethoven's famous "Serioso", an avant-garde and experimental quartet in the composer's own words; the counterpoint demonstration and eruptive dissonances of Mozart's Adagio and Fugue; the inventions of the Quartet in E flat dedicated to Haydn.
A new bombshell in the string quartet discography.
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
String quartet in F minor nº 11 op. 95 «Quartetto Serioso»
1. Allegro con brio
2. Allegretto ma non troppo
3. Allegro assai vivace ma serioso
4. Larghetto espressivo - Allegretto agitato - Allegro
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Adagio and Fugue in C minor K. 546
5. Adagio
6. Fugue
String quartet in E flat major nº 16 K. 428
7. Allegro non troppo
8. Andante con moto
9. Menuet : allegro et trio
10. Allegro vivace
