Mozart: String Quartets Vol. 4

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In the B flat and E flat Quartets – not always the most comfortable of keys for string ensembles – the Armida’s sparkling corporate intonation and textural litheness prove especially beguiling…Most... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2022, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 21st Jan 2022
Catalogue No: AVI8553205
Label: Avi Music
Length: 62 minutes

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Mozart: String Quartet No. 4 in C major, K157

Work length11:34

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Armida Quartett

I. Allegro

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II. Andante

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III. Presto

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Mozart: String Quartet No. 6 in B flat major, K159

Work length11:23

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Armida Quartett

I. Andante

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II. Allegro

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III. Rondo. Allegro grazioso

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Mozart: String Quartet No. 7 in E flat major, K160

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Armida Quartett

I. Allegro

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II. Un poco adagio

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III. Presto

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Mozart: String Quartet No. 19 in C major, K465 'Dissonance'

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Armida Quartett

I. Adagio - Allegro

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II. Andante cantabile

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III. Menuetto. Allegretto - Trio

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IV. Allegro molto

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This album is the Vol. IV of the planned complete recordings of Mozart's string quartets by the Armida Quartett.

Highly acclaimed and welcomed by the international press already the Vol. I III. "This is an accomplished recording of the great quartets from the Vienna decade, but, perhaps more importantly, a vital one of the earlier works, demonstrating not only by the young Mozart's gifts but also the unique power and imagination with which the teenage composer was able to deploy them. (Gramophone Magazine April 2021)

The Armida Quartet endeavours to find dissonances lying like sleeping metaphors on the seabed of Mozart's music, in order to bring them to the surface and back to life yet without making them too obvious. In so doing, the musicians commit themselves to follow the original sources, which they are intensely studying in collaboration with expert musicological counsel. But they are also committed to their chosen name, "Armida", which evokes a widespread opera subject stemming from Torquato Tasso's epic poem Gerusalemme liberata ("Jerusalem Delivered"). In that well-known story, Armida stands for what we would call cognitive dissonance. The Christian knight from the West and the pagan beauty from the East are fascinated with one another and fall in love. Despite her infatuation, however, Armida must surely also be an evil sorceress, since she is distracting Rinaldo, the crusader, from his holy mission of war. Armida's final submission is sealed once and for all with a battle victory and a baptism: this is obviously a Western projection we need to view with a greater deal of nuance. With its apparently irresolvable dissonance arising from contradictory feelings, the fear caused by the seductive outer appearance of beauty, and the ostensibly unappealable validity of cultural norms, the fictional Armida material is a true aesthetic and cultural litmus test .. (Excerpt from the booklet notes by Hansjorg Ewert)

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March 2022

In the B flat and E flat Quartets – not always the most comfortable of keys for string ensembles – the Armida’s sparkling corporate intonation and textural litheness prove especially beguiling…Most exquisite of all is the Armida’s microfine shadings, which imbue even the most workaday phrases with a sense of wonder.

March 2022

the Armida are fine guides to the less familiar early works…the confidence and accuracy they bring to their performances make this another enticing instalment in their continuing quartet cycle.

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