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Bartok - String Quartets No 2 & No 5                  | Zig Zag Territoires ZZT070601

Bartok - String Quartets No 2 & No 5

Ł13.88

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Label: Zig Zag Territoires

Cat No: ZZT070601

Barcode: 3760009291454

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 10th September 2007

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About

The talented Quartet Parker has chosen to make its recording debut with the String Quartets no.2 and no.5 of Béla Bartók.
 
The Second Quartet, premiered on 3 March 1918, appeared ten years after the First Quartet, and was the fruit of a long period of maturation marked by two large-scale scores, Bluebeard’s Castle and The Wooden Prince. The extremely lyrical character of the work reflects the influence of The Wooden Prince, and constitutes the last trace of Romanticism in Bartók’s music while at the same time prefiguring the expressionist dimension of his second ballet, The Miraculous Mandarin. 
 
The Fifth Quartet, commissioned by the American patron Elisabeth Sprague Coolidge (1935), corresponds to a more classical and more clearly tonal phase in the composer’s output, while not yielding to the neo-classical trend of the times. The work is fundamentally dramatic in character, indicative of the tensions then prevailing in Europe. Bartók produced in his Fifth Quartet a powerful, determined composition.
 
The Parker String Quartet were winners of the Concert Artists Guild’s 2005 Competition and captured First Prize at the Bordeaux International String Quartet Competition in the same year, enhancing its international reputation.

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