Marmen Quartet - Ligeti: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2; Bartók: String Quartet No. 4 (2025)
Marmen Quartet - Ligeti: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2; Bartók: String Quartet No. 4 (2025)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 246 Mb | Total time: 67:59 | Scans included
Classical | Label: BIS Records | # BIS-SACD-2693 | Recorded: 2023
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 246 Mb | Total time: 67:59 | Scans included
Classical | Label: BIS Records | # BIS-SACD-2693 | Recorded: 2023
For its first recording for BIS Records, the Marmen Quartet tackles three major works from the twentieth-century string quartet literature. The two quartets by György Ligeti belong to two different periods in the composer’s output. Written before Ligeti left Hungary and emigrated to the West, the First, subtitled ‘Métamorphoses nocturnes’, represents the peak of his ‘Hungarian’ period. Regarded as a virtuoso exercise, the work reveals the influences of Béla Bartók, particularly from his Third and Fourth Quartets. Ligeti’s Second Quartet belongs to his second period, particularly rich in significant works. Considered by the composer as a response to the works of his illustrious predecessors such as Mozart, Beethoven, Bartók and Berg, the Second Quartet, with its calculated anarchy, dynamic extremes and sublime climaxes, is not only one of Ligeti’s masterpieces but also a true classic of modernism.
Béla Bartók’s Fourth Quartet, which had a particularly strong influence on Ligeti, is widely seen as one of his most radical; it requires high levels of technical accomplishment from the performers, yet reveals a deep understanding of the instruments, and draws an un-precedented range of colour and character from them.
Performer:
Marmen Quartet:
Johannes Marmén & Laia Valentin Braun, violins
Bryony Gibson-Cornish, viola
Sinéad O’Halloran, cello
Tracklist:
György Ligeti (1923-2006)
String Quartet No. 1 (1953-4)
Métamorphoses nocturnes
01. I. Allegro grazioso
02. II. Vivace, capriccioso
03. III. Adagio, mesto
04. IV. Presto
05. V. Andante tranquillo
06. VI. Tempo di Valse, moderato, con eleganza, un poco capriccioso
07. VII. Allegretto, un poco gioviale
08. VIII. Prestissimo
Béla Bartók (1881-945)
String Quartet No. 4 (1928)
09. I. Allegro
10. II. Prestissimo, con sordino
11. III. Non troppo lento
12. IV. Allegretto pizzicato
13. V. Allegro molto
György Ligeti
String Quartet No. 2 (1968)
14. I. Allegro nervoso
15. II. Sostenuto, molto calmo
16. III. Come un meccanismo di precisione
17. IV. Presto furioso, brutale, tumultuoso
18. V. Allegro con delicatezza - stets sehr mild
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Marmen Quartet - Ligeti: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2; Bartók: String Quartet No. 4 (2025)
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