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Special offer. Schoenberg, Berg & Webern: Complete Works for String Quartet

Sandrine Piau (soprano), Marie-Nicole Lemieux (contralto)

Quatuor Diotima

Schoenberg, Berg & Webern: Complete Works for String Quartet

Awards:

The extreme refinement and minutely focused intensity, in recordings to match, make the Webern a singularly beautiful, if somewhat unsettling experience.

Special offer. Schoenberg, Berg & Webern: Complete Works for String Quartet

Sandrine Piau (soprano), Marie-Nicole Lemieux (contralto)

Quatuor Diotima

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Awards:

The extreme refinement and minutely focused intensity, in recordings to match, make the Webern a singularly beautiful, if somewhat unsettling experience.

About

Quatuor Diotima celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2016. This boxset dedicated to the Second Viennese School is the first of two events planned to mark this special year - along with the release of a new series of contemporary composer portraits.

This Schoenberg | Berg | Webern set gathers the complete works for string quartet composed by those three iconic composers. This is a major achievement and the result of years of concerts and research by the quartet, which is now considered to be a leading performer in this repertoire.

As well as the two recording projects mentioned above, the upcoming years will be rich in engagements for the quartet, including the cycle of Beethoven-Schoenberg-Boulez works at Wien Modern, concerts in various countries premiering Enno Poppe’s new string quartet (Wittener Tage für neue Musik, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, November Music‘s-Hertogenbosch, Transit Festival Leuven, Festival d´Automne à Paris), the complete Bartók string quartets in one evening at the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord in Paris and four international tours, across South America, Japan, the United States of America, as well as the ensemble’s first tour to Russia.

Contents and tracklist

I. Allegro molto
Track length8:38
II. Intermezzo
Track length4:13
III. Andante con moto
Track length7:44
IV. Allegro - Presto
Track length4:47
I. Nicht zu rasch
Track length12:50
II. Kräftig
Track length12:17
III. Mässig, langsame Viertel
Track length12:37
IV. Finale. Mässig heite
Track length8:46
I. Mässig
Track length6:13
II. Sehr rasch
Track length6:45
III. Langsam, Litanei
Track length5:41
IV. Sehr langsam, Entrückung
Track length11:37
I. Moderato
Track length9:13
II. Adagio
Track length8:33
III. Intermezzo
Track length7:25
IV. Rondo
Track length6:21
I. Allegro molto energico
Track length9:16
II. Comodo
Track length7:55
III. Largo
Track length8:51
IV. Allegro
Track length8:27
I. Langsam
Track length10:25
II. Mässige Viertel
Track length10:47
I. Allegro gioviale
Track length3:04
II. Andante amoroso
Track length5:53
III. Allegro misterioso - Trio estatico
Track length3:12
IV. Adagio apassionato
Track length5:53
V. Presto delirando
Track length4:26
VI. Largo desolato. De profundis clamavi
Track length6:15
I. Heftig bewegt
Track length2:37
II. Sehr langsam
Track length3:02
III. Sehr bewegt
Track length0:47
IV. Sehr langsam
Track length1:54
V. In zarter Bewegung
Track length3:53
Mässig
Track length0:34
Leicht bewegt
Track length0:23
Ziemlich fliessend
Track length0:23
Sehr langsam
Track length0:57
Äusserst langsam
Track length1:20
Fliessend
Track length0:42
Langsam, Schmerz immer, Blick nach oben
Track length1:00
I. Mässig
Track length3:50
II. Gemächlich
Track length1:49
III. Sehr fliessend
Track length2:30

Spotlight on this release

Awards and reviews

January 2012

The extreme refinement and minutely focused intensity, in recordings to match, make the Webern a singularly beautiful, if somewhat unsettling experience.

June 2016

Quatuor Diotima couldn’t play an affected, emotionally over-ripened note if they tried. Their vision of Second Viennese School aesthetics views the backdrop of Romanticism – Brahms, Wagner, Mahler et al – as a starting-shot rather than a point of reference to be dwelt over too obsessively.
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