Special offer. Britten: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 3
Emperor String Quartet
it is perceptive of the Emperor Quartet to include the very early Alla marcia...It is most definitely allied to the First Quartet here - their youthful and appropriately caustic playing of the...
Special offer. Britten: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 3
Emperor String Quartet
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it is perceptive of the Emperor Quartet to include the very early Alla marcia...It is most definitely allied to the First Quartet here - their youthful and appropriately caustic playing of the...
About
On this second disc of the Emperor Quartet’s survey of Britten’s music for string quartet, Alla marcia appears as an interlude between the first and the last of Britten's three published string quartets.
The first disc in this series of three was released in 2010, and included a performance of the Second String Quartet described as 'stupendous' in Classic FM Magazine and 'magnificent' in Scherzo, while the reviewer in Fono Forum likened it to 'an entire cosmos of colours and nuances'.
Contents and tracklist
Work length25:55
- Emperor Quartet
I. Andante sostenuto - Allegro vivo
Track length8:36
II. Allegretto con slancio
Track length3:01
III. Andante calmo
Track length10:17
IV. Molto vivace
Track length4:01
Britten:
Alla marcia for String Quartet
Work length3:26
- Emperor Quartet
Work length26:15
- Emperor Quartet
I. Duets. With Moderate Movement
Track length5:25
II. Ostinato. Very Fast
Track length3:08
III. Solo. Very Calm
Track length5:37
IV. Burlesque. Fast
Track length2:17
V. Recitative & Passacaglia. Slow
Track length9:48
Awards and reviews
December 2013
it is perceptive of the Emperor Quartet to include the very early Alla marcia...It is most definitely allied to the First Quartet here - their youthful and appropriately caustic playing of the fragmented themes stylised away from the Third Quartet
