United Kingdom
Arcana: A414
Haydn - Quartets Vol.4: Op.33 & Op.42
Our Price: £17.95
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Chamber
Artist(s): Festetics Quartet (on period instruments)
Release Date: 28th June 2009
More Details on Haydn - Quartets Vol.4: Op.33 & Op.42
This is the last volume of the complete Haydn String Quartets performed by the Festetics Quartet. Recorded by Michel Bernstein in Budapest in Spring 2006, this last volume represents the crowning achievement of a project conceived by the well-known founder of Arcana, who died a few months later.
It is the first complete cycle on period instruments and features the complete 58 string quartets authenticated by the composer for the great Artaria edition: 19 CDs collected in 9 volumes in chronological order with liner notes written by the eminent Hungarian musicologist László Somfai.
Founded in 1985, the Festetics Quartet was the first Hungarian ensemble to perform works of the classical quartet literature on period instruments. By their choice of name they decided to commemorate the outstanding figure of the Hungarian Enlightenment and patron of the arts, Count György Festetics.
Recorded April 28th - May 4th 2006, Hungarian National Philharmony, Budapest.
Festetics Quartet:
- István Kertész (violin)
- Erika Petöfi (violin)
- Péter Ligeti (viola)
- Rezsö Pertorini (cello)
It is the first complete cycle on period instruments and features the complete 58 string quartets authenticated by the composer for the great Artaria edition: 19 CDs collected in 9 volumes in chronological order with liner notes written by the eminent Hungarian musicologist László Somfai.
Founded in 1985, the Festetics Quartet was the first Hungarian ensemble to perform works of the classical quartet literature on period instruments. By their choice of name they decided to commemorate the outstanding figure of the Hungarian Enlightenment and patron of the arts, Count György Festetics.
Recorded April 28th - May 4th 2006, Hungarian National Philharmony, Budapest.
Festetics Quartet:
- István Kertész (violin)
- Erika Petöfi (violin)
- Péter Ligeti (viola)
- Rezsö Pertorini (cello)
