Kabalevsky: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2
Stenhammar Quartet
Composed in 1928, [the First Quartet] opens with a gentle, Pärt-like lullaby, yet pre-dates that Estonian composer’s tintinnabuli style by about 50 years…The Second Quartet, composed shortly...
Kabalevsky: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2
Stenhammar Quartet
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Composed in 1928, [the First Quartet] opens with a gentle, Pärt-like lullaby, yet pre-dates that Estonian composer’s tintinnabuli style by about 50 years…The Second Quartet, composed shortly...
About
Dmitri Kabalevsky only composed two string quartets. His first quartet of 1928 from his late study years with Nikolai Yakovievich Myaskovsky is a work structured with great refinement not only fulfilling academic requirements but also representing a remarkably independent achievement. His second quartet from the period immediately after World War II very dramatically reflects the events of the preceding years. Here, Kabalevsky produced a work of extraordinary eloquence with a clear per aspera ad astra arising from the horrors of the war.
Contents and tracklist
- Stenhammar Quartet
- Recorded: 1-5 June 2015
- Recording Venue: Petruskirche, Stockholm, Sweden
- Stenhammar Quartet
- Recorded: 1-5 June 2015
- Recording Venue: Petruskirche, Stockholm, Sweden
Awards and reviews
March 2018
Composed in 1928, [the First Quartet] opens with a gentle, Pärt-like lullaby, yet pre-dates that Estonian composer’s tintinnabuli style by about 50 years…The Second Quartet, composed shortly after World War II, is perhaps more ‘typical’ since Kabalevsky now pays stylistic tribute to Prokofiev.
