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String Quartets vol. IV – Schubert, Ratkje, Britten, Haydn

Engegard Quartet

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Perhaps the greatest single characteristic of Franz Schubert’s Rosamunde Quartet (1823) is the elusive, longing and perhaps even tragically unconsummated atmosphere that pervades the entire work. Only in the Andante are we really allowed to relax in its peaceful serenity.

The ambiguity in the title of Maja Ratkje’s Tale of Lead and Light (2011) reflects the dread which pervaded Oslo in the summer of 2011, and the life-affirming light of Beethoven’s opus 59/1 which inspired Maja’s work.

It is a tribute to Benjamin Britten’s inherent “joie de vivre” that optimism and love triumph in his Second String Quartet (1945), composed just after the 2nd World War. The quartet reaches its emotional climax in the magnificent Chacony, a passacaglia with no less than 21 variations, inspired by Henry Purcell. Britten’s 2nd string quartet received its premiere on the 21st November 1945, 250 years to the day after Henry Purcell’s death.

Recording Joseph Haydn’s Op. 76 No. 5 on our debut CD in 2008 inspired us to include the complete opus, arguably Haydn’s greatest string quartet collection, in our repertoire as soon as possible. The heart of the Emperor Quartet, Opus 76/3 is also the most well known movement, Poco adagio. Haydn composed the psalm that he subsequently used as the theme of this movement after a prolonged stay in England. Something of a celebrity, Haydn mingled with the royals, and his admiration for the British national anthem inspired him to compose a tribute to Emperor Francis II. It was later used first as the Austrian and then as the German national anthem. Haydn used a musical cryptogram of the first line of the Anthem, “Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser” to create the opening theme of the first movement, using the first letters of each word in the German text. g e f d k/c, are the exact musical notes of the main theme in the Allegro. The simplest ideas are often the best!

Tracklist

Please note that the below previews are loaded as 44.1 kHz / 16 bit.
1.
Schubert String Quartet No. 13 in A minor D. 804, Op. 29, Rosamunde - I. Allegro ma non troppo
13:02
2.
Schubert String Quartet No. 13 in A minor D. 804, Op. 29, Rosamunde - II. Andante
07:17
3.
Schubert String Quartet No. 13 in A minor D. 804, Op. 29, Rosamunde - III. Minuetto
07:02
4.
Schubert String Quartet No. 13 in A minor D. 804, Op. 29, Rosamunde - IV. Allegro moderato
07:24
5.
Ratkje - Tale of Lead and Light, String Quartet No. 1
11:26
6.
Britten String Quartet No. 2 in C major, Op. 36 - I. Allegro calmo senza rigore
07:48
7.
Britten String Quartet No. 2 in C major, Op. 36 - II. Vivace
03:34
8.
Britten String Quartet No. 2 in C major, Op. 36 - III. Chacony
16:26
9.
Haydn String Quartet in C major, Op. 76, No. 3, Emperor - I. Allegro
07:01
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Haydn String Quartet in C major, Op. 76, No. 3, Emperor - III. Menuet - Allegro
04:15
12.
Haydn String Quartet in C major, Op. 76, No. 3, Emperor - IV. Finale - Presto
05:31

Total time: 01:30:46

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2L105

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Horus, Merging Technologies

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DPA Microphones

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Morten Lindberg

Recording Engineer

Morten Lindberg, Beatrice Johannessen

Recording location

Jar Church, Norway

Recording Type & Bit Rate

DXD

Release Date September 25, 2019

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