Donizetti: String Quartets Nos. 4-6

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performances are lively and energetic but not overly aggressive, with well-chosen tempos, poise, and eloquence. I did occasionally wish for crisper articulation. The sound of the recording is... — Fanfare, Jan/Feb 2021 More…

Release Date: 3rd Jan 2020
Catalogue No: 555240-2
Label: CPO
Length: 51 minutes

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Donizetti: String Quartet No. 4 in D major

Work length15:20

$4.00

$5.20

Pleyel Quartett Köln

I. Allegro

Track length6:10

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$1.30

II. Canzone. Andante

Track length3:08

$1.00

$1.30

III. Minuetto. Presto

Track length2:38

$1.00

$1.30

IV. Allegro

Track length3:24

$1.00

$1.30

Donizetti: String Quartet No. 5 in E minor

Work length21:52

$5.00

$6.50

Pleyel Quartett Köln

I. Allegro

Track length9:31

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$2.60

II. Larghetto

Track length4:13

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$1.30

III. Minuetto. Presto

Track length4:35

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$1.30

IV. Allegro agitato

Track length3:33

$1.00

$1.30

Donizetti: String Quartet No. 6 in G minor

Work length13:50

$4.00

$5.20

Pleyel Quartett Köln

I. Allegro

Track length5:40

$1.00

$1.30

II. Larghetto

Track length2:34

$1.00

$1.30

III. Minuetto. Presto

Track length4:00

$1.00

$1.30

IV. Presto

Track length1:36

$1.00

$1.30

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Donizetti Edition with the Pleyel Quartet Gaetano Donizetti not only was very well acquainted with the Viennese models that then were dominant on the international market; at the latest since his study years in Bologna he had also been familiar with the most important exponents of Italian quartet culture. This is why his string quartets offer valuable insights into his education and early artistic development and are important documents attesting to the existence of a chamber music culture specific to Bergamo. In Quartets Nos. 4-6 conventional and innovative elements combine to form an astonishing synthesis. A great many different musical characters are heard in his quartets, which often come across as unconventional in form and tone. It thus may be said that Donizetti composed while feeling »the pulse of the times and that the Pleyel Quartet plays while feeling the pulse of the music. No wish remains unfulfilled. Here Donizettis music is performed just as naturally, spiritedly, and entertainingly as it is written.« This is how klassik-heute. com praised our previous CD featuring Quartets No. 1-3.

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Jan/Feb 2021

performances are lively and energetic but not overly aggressive, with well-chosen tempos, poise, and eloquence. I did occasionally wish for crisper articulation. The sound of the recording is spacious, clear, well balanced, and free from harshness.

March 2020

Well-recorded, amiable early works from a composer whose true vocation was opera.

Donizetti: String Quartets Nos. 4-6

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