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Weinberg - String Quartets, Volume 5

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Weinberg - String Quartets, Volume 5

CD UPC: 0095115232828

Release Date: April 2025
Originally recorded in April 2024

Composer
Mieczyslaw Weinberg

Chamber
Arcadia Quartet

Producer
Jonathan Cooper

Engineer
Jonathan Cooper

Venue 28-30 April 2024
Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk

Genre:
Classical
String quartet, wind quartet etc.

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MIECZYSLAW WEINBERG

String Quartets, Volume 5

String Quartet No. 3, Op. 14 (1944)

20:18

in D minor • in d-Moll • en ré mineur

Georgij Wassiljewitsch Swiridow gewidmet

Presto –

7:36

Andante sostenuto –

7:49

III

Allegretto

4:53

Improvisation and Romance (1950)

20:18

for String Quartet

[Improvisation.] Adagio –

3:24

[Romance.] Andante

3:59

String Quartet No. 9, Op. 80 (1963)

29:26

in F-sharp minor • in fis-Moll • en fa diese mineur

Allegro molto –

6:23

Allegretto –

6:01

Andante –

10:21

Allegro moderato

6:39

String Quartet No. 14, Op. 122 (1978)

24:24

Juri Lewitin gewidmet

10.

Dotted crotchet = 96 -

3:03

11.

Crotchet = 63 -

3:51

12.

III

Crotchet = 108 -

5:11

13.

Dotted crotchet = 54 -

3:45

14.

Crotchet = 152 - Doppio più lento

8:32

Total time: 81:32

Chamber: Arcadia Quartet

Ana Török violin

Rasvan Dumitru violin

Traian Boala viola

Zsolt Török cello

MIECZYSLAW WEINBERG

String Quartets, Volume 5

String Quartet No. 3, Op. 14 (1944)

20:18

in D minor • in d-Moll • en ré mineur

Georgij Wassiljewitsch Swiridow gewidmet

1.

I

Presto –

7:36

2.

II

Andante sostenuto –

7:49

3.

III

Allegretto

4:53

Improvisation and Romance (1950)

20:18

for String Quartet

4.

[Improvisation.] Adagio –

3:24

5.

[Romance.] Andante

3:59

String Quartet No. 9, Op. 80 (1963)

29:26

in F-sharp minor • in fis-Moll • en fa diese mineur

6.

1

Allegro molto –

6:23

7.

II

Allegretto –

6:01

8.

II

Andante –

10:21

9.

IV

Allegro moderato

6:39

String Quartet No. 14, Op. 122 (1978)

24:24

Juri Lewitin gewidmet

10.

I

Dotted crotchet = 96 -

3:03

11.

II

Crotchet = 63 -

3:51

12.

III

Crotchet = 108 -

5:11

13.

IV

Dotted crotchet = 54 -

3:45

14.

V

Crotchet = 152 - Doppio più lento

8:32

Total time: 81:32

Chamber: Arcadia Quartet

Ana Török violin

Rasvan Dumitru violin

Traian Boala viola

Zsolt Török cello

About

The Arcadia Quartet reaches the penultimate release in its acclaimed complete Weinberg string quartets series with this volume, featuring Quartets Nos 3, 9, and 14. As in previous volumes, the works are taken from contrasting periods of Weinberg’s compositional development, and so present a varied programme that works in its own right. Quartet No. 3, composed in 1944, could be considered as the first ‘mature’ quartet, and is set in three movements. The Ninth Quartet, composed in 1963, dates from his self-described ‘starry decade’, when his work was championed by a significant group of enthusiastic performers, including Emil Gilels, Leonid Kogan, Kirill Kondrashin, Rudolf Barshai, and the Borodin Quartet. Quartet No. 14 dates from 1978, three years after the death of Weinberg’s great friend and mentor Shostakovich: a time when Weinberg was questioning and renewing his artistic identity. The album also includes the short Improvisation and Romance, from 1950.

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Reviews

'The Arcadia Quartet in a short text in the booklet say that Weinberg's 'music is like a glow of light surrounded by the darkness of the unknown.' That's a quality you will find in their interpretations.'

Alexander Laskowski - Gramophone - June 2025

'What is so impressive about this album is the way that the Arcadia Quartet depicts Weinberg’s stylistic journey towards this uncompromising musical language.'

Joanne Talbot - The Strad - June 2025

'One of the great virtues of the Arcadia Quartet's outstandingly performed Weinberg quartet cycle lies is its imaginative programming.'

Erik Levi - BBC Music Magazine - June 2025

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