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Browse: Bartók - String Quartet No. 5, Sz 102
Composer: Béla Bartók (1881–1945)Genres:
Chamber » Quartets » String Quartets
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Awards:
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Gramophone Awards, 1989, Recording of the Year
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Grammy Awards, 32nd Awards (1989), Best Chamber Music Recording
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Grammy Awards, 32nd Awards (1989), Classical Album of the Year
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Two of the strengths of the Heath Quartet are their ability to hold together Bartók’s more sectional structures, such as the first movements of the Fourth and Fifth quartets in convincing single... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2017, Editor's Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2017
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Record Review, 10th June 2017, Recording of the Week
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Finalist - Chamber
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The playing in these endlessly fascinating and rewarding pieces is supremely accomplished. Distinguished Bartók cycles in recent years include those by the Alban Berg (EMI), Emerson (DG) and... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2008, Finalist - Chamber
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2008, Editor's Choice
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These performances provide more impressive sampling points than can be enumerated in a single review. The First Quartet's oscillating tempo-shifts work wonderfully well, all with total naturalness.
Characterisation... — More…Awards:
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Building a Library, April 2002, First Choice
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Building a Library, February 2021, Recommended Recording
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Colour is...very much the Hagen's thing, widely spaced dynamics too, which are vividly projected; and where keeping to the letter matters most, they don't disappoint either — More…
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Building a Library, February 2021, Also Recommended
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Whatever the inspirations, these players are alive to them, just as they are alert to the technical demands lurking around every corner. These Arcadians also find haunting desolation. — More…
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Record Review, 8th December 2018, Disc of the Week
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[No. 1] opens in a state of lonely desolation, and the feeling of suspense is superbly captured by the Jerusalems, who also find the earthy folksiness to remind us that Bartók’s language is rooted... — More…
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The Bartók No. 5… is almost hysterically passionate, a brilliant and exciting performance that grips from first bar to last. — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Finalist - Chamber
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2007, Editor's Choice
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Bartók: String Quartets Nos. 1-6
RecommendedTokyo String Quartet
Koichiro Harada (violin), Kikuei Ikeda (violin), Kazuhide Isomura (viola) & Sadao Harada (cello)
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Building a Library, September 2005, First Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 1981, Winner - Chamber
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Quite exceptional, this…and on many levels.
For one, the playing is superb, the biting attack of the Fifth Quartet's opening, its precision, energy and tempered rhythmic momentum, not to mention... — More…Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2007, Editor's Choice
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