Bartók, Janácek: String Quartets (Complete)

Bartók, Janácek: String Quartets (Complete)

On this CD:

1. String Quartet No. 1 ("Kreutzer"), JW 7/8
Composed by Leos Janacek
Performed by Sadao Harada, Kikuei Ikeda, Kazuhide Isomura, Peter Oundijian, Tokyo String Quartet

2. String Quartet No. 2 ("Listy duverné," "Intimate Letters"), JW 7/13
Composed by Leos Janacek
Performed by Sadao Harada, Kikuei Ikeda, Kazuhide Isomura, Peter Oundijian, Tokyo String Quartet

3. String Quartet, No. 1 in A Minor, Sz. 40, BB 52 (Op. 7)
Composed by Bela Bartok
Performed by Sadao Harada, Kikuei Ikeda, Kazuhide Isomura, Peter Oundijian, Tokyo String Quartet

4. String Quartet, No. 2 in A minor, Sz. 67, BB 75 (Op. 17)
Composed by Bela Bartok
Performed by Sadao Harada, Kikuei Ikeda, Kazuhide Isomura, Peter Oundijian, Tokyo String Quartet

5. String Quartet, No. 3 in C sharp Major, Sz. 85, BB 93
Composed by Bela Bartok
Performed by Sadao Harada, Kikuei Ikeda, Kazuhide Isomura, Peter Oundijian, Tokyo String Quartet

6. String Quartet, No. 4 in C Major, Sz. 91, BB 93
Composed by Bela Bartok
Performed by Sadao Harada, Kikuei Ikeda, Kazuhide Isomura, Peter Oundijian, Tokyo String Quartet

7. String Quartet, No. 5 in B flat Major, Sz. 102, BB 110
Composed by Bela Bartok
Performed by Sadao Harada, Kikuei Ikeda, Kazuhide Isomura, Peter Oundijian, Tokyo String Quartet

8. String Quartet, No. 6 in D Major, Sz. 114, BB 119
Composed by Bela Bartok
Performed by Sadao Harada, Kikuei Ikeda, Kazuhide Isomura, Peter Oundijian, Tokyo String Quartet

Editorial Reviews
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Bartók's six quartets are the greatest set in that form since Beethoven; they have attracted most of the great quartets since the mid-century, and several complete recordings deserve consideration. The Tokyo String Quartet plays with high energy and dazzling technique in this, its second recording (notable for the presence of its newest, non-Japanese member, Peter Oundjian). It takes three discs, comparted with two for some other recordings, but it includes two of the century's most striking, original, and emotionally appealing quartets, composed by Janácek when he was involved in an intense, doomed, and reluctantly platonic love affair with a much younger woman. --Joe McLellan

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Bartók, Janácek: String Quartets (Complete)

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