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Egon Wellesz - String Quartets | Nimbus NI5821

Egon Wellesz - String Quartets

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Label: Nimbus

Cat No: NI5821

Barcode: 0710357582127

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 28th April 2008

Contents

About

EGON WELLESZ (1885–1974) was an Austrian composer, teacher and musicologist, a pupil of Arnold Schoenberg and an eminent scholar of Byzantine music. Wellesz left Austria for England in the wake of the Anschluss and spent the remainder of his life at Oxford University, where he taught from 1932. He wrote nine symphonies and nine string quartets, the latter series of works spread throughout his life. His earliest music is in a harsh but tonal style. There is a definite second period in which his music has a somewhat Brucknerian sound and towards the end of his life the music becomes more pan-tonal and serial in character. Wellesz’ works as a composer amount to at least 130 works in a variety of mediums; composing for the stage as well as for the concert hall. Recently, interest in Wellesz' music has increased, in particular his nine symphonies have been recorded to great acclaim. The Quartets performed on this CD are premiere recordings.

ARTIS-QUARTETT WIEN
Peter Schuhmayer, 1st violin
Johannes Meissl, 2nd violin
Herbert Kefer, viola
Othmar Müller, violoncello

In 1997 the Artis-Quartett was awarded the" Alexander Zemlinsky Award", beginning a close cooperation with Nimbus Records. Their first project, the complete Zemlinsky String Quartets, immediately gained outstandingly high recognition from the international critics including the Diapason d´Or, Pick of the month (BBC Music Magazine), Empfehlung (Klassik Heute), Empfehlung Repertoire (Fono Forum), and Editors Choice (Gramophone).

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