Bartok: String Quartets Nos. 1-6

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Release Date: 13th Aug 2021
Catalogue No: ELQ4843693
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Length: 2 hours 41 minutes

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Bartók: String Quartet No. 1, BB 52, Op. 7, Sz. 40

Work length32:32

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Lindsay String Quartet (string quartet), Peter Cropper (violin), Ronald Birks (violin), Roger Bigley (viola), Bernard Gregor-Smith (cello)
Recorded: 1988

1. Lento

Track length10:49

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2. Allegretto

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3. Introduzione. Allegro - Allegro vivace

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Bartók: String Quartet No. 2, BB 75, Op. 17, Sz. 67

Work length29:06

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Lindsay String Quartet (string quartet), Peter Cropper (violin), Ronald Birks (violin), Roger Bigley (viola), Bernard Gregor-Smith (cello)
Recorded: 1988

1. Moderato

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2. Allegro molto capriccioso

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3. Lento

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Bartók: String Quartet No. 3, BB 93, Sz. 85

Work length15:33

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Lindsay String Quartet (string quartet), Peter Cropper (violin), Ronald Birks (violin), Roger Bigley (viola), Bernard Gregor-Smith (cello)
Recorded: 1988

1. Prima parte. Moderato

Track length5:00

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2. Seconda parte. Allegro

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3. Ricapitulazione della prima parte. Moderato

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4. Coda. Allegro molto

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Bartók: String Quartet No. 4, Sz 91

Work length22:32

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Lindsay String Quartet (string quartet), Peter Cropper (violin), Ronald Birks (violin), Roger Bigley (viola), Bernard Gregor-Smith (cello)
Recorded: 1998

1. Allegro

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2. Prestissimo, con sordino

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3. Non troppo lento

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4. Allegretto pizzicato

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5. Allegro molto

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Bartók: String Quartet No. 5, BB 110, Sz. 102

Work length31:23

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Lindsay String Quartet (string quartet), Peter Cropper (violin), Ronald Birks (violin), Roger Bigley (viola), Bernard Gregor-Smith (cello)
Recorded: 1988

1. Allegro

Track length7:40

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2. Adagio molto

Track length6:37

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3. Scherzo. Alla bulgarese

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4. Andante

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5. Finale. Allegro vivace - Presto

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Bartók: String Quartet No. 6, BB 119, Sz. 114

Work length30:47

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Lindsay String Quartet (string quartet), Peter Cropper (violin), Ronald Birks (violin), Roger Bigley (viola), Bernard Gregor-Smith (cello)
Recorded: 1988
Recording Venue: Henry Wood Hall, London

1. Mesto - Piu mosso, pesante - Vivace

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2. Mesto - Marcia

Track length7:34

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3. Mesto - Burletta. Moderato

Track length7:15

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4. Mesto

Track length8:15

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The first digitally recorded Bartok quartet cycle, long unavailable: ferociously intelligent readings in superb sound that have stood the test of time against other classic interpretations in the storied discography of these works.

The Lindsays Bartok cycle, recorded by ASV in 198081, marked the culmination of a decade of intense study and concert performances of the cycle, much of it done in Hungary with eminent string players.

Reviewers found that the acoustic of Rosslyn Hill Chapel in north London made an ideal complement to the Lindsays searching accounts, recorded in studio conditions but preserving the risk-and-reward strategy of their live performances.

The Quartets charismatic leader was Peter Cropper, who outlined the groups performing philosophy: We did it because we loved it, and I think it came across. I dont say it was always immaculate. Who wants perfection?

Where previous benchmark recordings by native ensembles had majored on the spirit more than the letter of the score, however, the Lindsays attention to detail in this ASV cycle raised the curtain on a new era of interpretation for works that have evolved to reflect the zeitgeist as well as the troubled mind of their creator. As Sir Michael Tippett remarked: The Lindsays are indeed the best friend a composer could have.

Immaculate control in the compressed drama of the Third and violent eruptions of the Fourth hardly precludes a fine sense of the desolation in the finale of the Second and the heart-breaking resignation in the final pages of the Sixth. The full timbral palette of Bartoks pizzicato-glissando effects, magical harmonies and muted sonorities is eloquently and elegantly captured in what was then innovative technology.

Searching, powerful and expressive Penguin Guide

The Quartet have a fine unanimity and are equally good in the anguished melodic lines and tense harmony of the slower movements and the biting rhythm and drive of quicker ones. Gramophone, March 1989

These players have their own kind of distinction in this music and should not be missed. Gramophone, December 1989

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