Bartók Bound

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The Ragazze Quartet tackles Bartók with vitality and assurance in this first volume of the complete quartets. Some more depth and guts would lift them to the next level. — BBC Music Magazine, August 2019, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 12th Apr 2019
Catalogue No: CCS41419
Label: Channel
Length: 80 minutes

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Bartók: String Quartet No. 1, Sz 40 (Op. 7)

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I. Lento

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II. Allegretto

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III. Introduzione - Allegro vivace

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Bartók: String Quartet No. 2, Sz 67 (Op. 17)

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I. Moderato

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II. Allegro molto capriccioso

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III. Lento

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Bartók: String Quartet No. 4, Sz 91

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I. Allegro

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II. Prestissimo, con sordino

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III. Non troppo lento

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IV. Allegretto pizzicato

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V. Allegro molto

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It's always a wonderful and thrilling experience to play Béla Bartók. It's got everything: the mysterious tension of a thriller, loving lyricism, warm string sounds, almost impossible techniques challenging any string player to rediscover his instrument, and exhilarating rhythms which could well be rooted in folk dance. His music has fascinated us for years, so now we've decided to record all six string quartets.

For the coming years we've declared ourselves Bartók Bound. We delve deep into his music and present his quartets in all sorts of ways and all kinds of programmes. For young and old, in pubs or on the screen, and in concert halls of course. This CD forms the first testimony. We wish to break a lance for Béla Bartók: as far as we're concerned his sound can't be heard often enough!

- Ragazze Quartet

The Ragazze Quartet plays both classical and modern string quartet repertoire: inspired and on the highest level. With attractive but unconventional programmes the quartet has come to be one of the most fresh and leading voices in the world of classical music. In innovative programmes it embarks on collaborations with the most original voices in theatre, dance and literature.

With performances that speak to all senses they succeed in securing an audience for the rich classical music tradition. In this way they warm the hearts of both the die hard listener and the novice for the string quartet repertoire of the past and of our present day.

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August 2019

The Ragazze Quartet tackles Bartók with vitality and assurance in this first volume of the complete quartets. Some more depth and guts would lift them to the next level.

July 2019

You sense a real rapport between group members and the score to hand. The Fourth Quartet is perhaps given the best performance of all, the first movement cranky and obdurate, the two scherzos (whether muted or plucked) full of sudden contrasts, the central slow movement almost Messiaenic in its evocation of animated birdsong…The Ragazze Quartet certainly cut the mustard.

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