Schoenberg: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 3, Opp. 7 & 30

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The Gringolts Quartet play both works with absolute mastery, and it would be difficult to imagine more convincing performances. Lingering particularly in the memory is the middle section of the... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2022, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 6th May 2022
Catalogue No: BIS2567
Label: BIS
Length: 79 minutes

BBC Music Magazine

July 2022

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2023

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Schoenberg: String Quartet No. 1 in D minor, Op. 7

Work length47:01

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Gringolts Quartet

I. Nicht zu rasch

Track length13:43

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II. Kräftig

Track length12:15

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III. Mäßig

Track length12:14

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IV. Mäßig

Track length8:49

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Schoenberg: String Quartet No. 3, Op. 30

Work length32:12

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Gringolts Quartet

I. Moderato

Track length9:05

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II. Adagio

Track length8:43

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III. Intermezzo. Allegro moderato

Track length7:24

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IV. Rondo. Molto moderato

Track length7:00

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"Arnold Schoenberg’s second string quartet –included on a previous release by the Gringolts Quartet – is often used as a reference point when the emergence of atonality is discussed. That work, where Schoenberg in the fourth movement suddenly does away with a time signature, was composed in 1907, three years after his first work in the genre: the String Quartet in D minor, Op. 7, a work which still has much in common with the Late Romantic idiom of Richard Strauss. The D minor quartet is in one movement, but with four distinct sections which, according to a note left by the composer, chart a progression from ‘rebellion’ and ‘depression’ to ‘quiet joy and the contemplation of rest and harmony’ – a programme reminiscent of the one Strauss had used in his recent tone poem Ein Heldenleben. Albeit tonal, the harmonic language is richly chromatic, pointing forward to the inevitable break in the second quartet. Some twenty years later, Schoenberg had developed his twelve-tone method, and his Third Quartet is an example of how he was using this to refresh traditional form schemes and contrapuntal textures, while at the same time counterbalancing the modern idiom with familiar features such as a slow variation movement and a rondo finale."

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July 2022

The Gringolts Quartet play both works with absolute mastery, and it would be difficult to imagine more convincing performances. Lingering particularly in the memory is the middle section of the quasi-slow movement in the Quartet No. 1, with its radiant viola melody beautifully played by Silvia Simionescu. This is a really important release.

Schoenberg: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 3, Opp. 7 & 30

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