Benjamin Britten: String Quartets 1-3 / Three Divertimenti - COMPACT DISCS

Title: String Quartets 1-3 / Three Divertimenti
Artist: Benjamin Britten
Label: Chandos
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 095115212424
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2019-04-05
Number of Discs: 2
Additional Details: 2 PACK

Founded in 1998 at Pro Corda, Suffolk, the multi-award-winning Doric String Quartet describes recording Britten's quartets as a significant milestone: 'In our recording we have endeavoured to tread a line that brings out the humanity in these works but also recognises the need for distance and fragility. This is very personal and intimate music, yet also world-encompassing and timeless.' The Quartet continues: 'Another feature of this recording is that Hélène Clément, our violist, is playing on Benjamin Britten's own viola. This instrument (on loan from the Britten-Pears Foundation) was made in 1843 in Milan by Francesco Guissani. It was previously owned by the composer Frank Bridge who gave it to Britten, as a departure gift when Britten and Pears set sail for the USA in 1939.' Hélène Clément writes: 'To be able to explore the music of Britten with the very sound that the composer had in his ears is the greatest honour and joy I could have imagined.'

Tracks:
1.1 String Quartet No. 1 in D Major, Op. 25
1.2 1. I. Andante Sostenuto - Allegro Vivo 00:09:05
1.3 2. II. Allegretto Con Slancio 00:02:55
1.4 3. III. Andante Calmo 00:10:28
1.5 4. IV. Molto Vivace 00:03:40
1.6 3 Divertimenti
1.7 5. No. 1. March: Allegro Maestoso 00:03:36
1.8 6. No. 2. Waltz: Allegretto 00:02:58
1.9 7. No. 3. Burlesque: Presto 00:03:18
1.10 String Quartet No. 3, Op. 94
1.11 8. I. Duets: With Moderate Movement 00:05:38
1.12 9. II. Ostinato: Very Fast 00:03:11
1.13 10. III. Solo: Very Calm - Lively 00:06:01
1.14 11. IV. Burlesque: Fast 00:02:16
1.15 12. V. Recitative and Passacaglia (La Serenissima): Slow 00:10:01
1.16 22 Purcell, Henry - Classical Composer
1.17 1. Fantasia a 4 No. 6 in F Major, Z. 737 00:03:27
1.18 2. Fantasia a 4 No. 7 in C minor, Z. 738 00:03:29
1.19 3. Fantasia a 4 No. 8 in D minor, Z. 739 00:03:41
1.20 4. Fantasia a 4 No. 9 in a Minor, Z. 740 00:02:55
1.21 5. Fantasia a 4 No. 10 in E minor, Z. 741 00:03:27
1.22 Britten, Benjamin - Classical Composer
1.23 String Quartet No. 2 in C Major, Op. 36
1.24 6. I. Allegro Calmo Senza Rigore 00:08:13
1.25 7. II. Vivace 00:03:23
1.26 8. III. Chacony: Sostenuto 00:18:56