Performer: Diogenes String Quartet
Label : CPO
Release : January 2019
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As I aware, Ignaz von Beecke (1733-1803) has one popular string quartet recording under CPO label already. Those are three string quartets performed by Arioso-Quartet recorded way back to 1997. God bless us all and now there is another von Beecke's string quartet to be heard. The new string quartet was recorded by Diogenes String Quartet. In this CD there is one Piano Quintet in A Minor and two string quartet, in G Major and C Major. Now that I check, the G Major string quartet is different from Arioso's recording , so hurray another brand new string quartet for all of us.
This is the CD notes :
The lexicographers Gerber and Lipowsky vouched for Ignaz von Beecke’s fame as a pianist and composer during his times, but today, we regret to say, hardly anything of his former renown remains. And yet this musician, whose early creations continued to be obliged to the style galant but whose late oeuvre from the 1790s already began to open the door to romanticism, created works of great originality and considerable quality offering opportunities for rewarding new encounters in the concert hall or on sound carriers. Very substantial creations are also found in von Beecke’s string quartet oeuvre, and his quartets prove to be eloquent examples of his richly inventive compositional style, which again and again also tended toward unconventional solutions. The most interesting work among the pieces presented here, however, is his Piano Quintet. Although the piano gladly appears as a solo instrument here, the composer is concerned not so much with the display of technical brilliance; the coordinated effort of the entire musical ensemble occupies the foreground.
Beecke: 2 String Quartets Piano Quintet - Diogenes String Quartet (2019)
1. Piano Quintet in A Minor: I. Allegro con affetto 00:11:22
2. Piano Quintet in A Minor: II. Andante più tosto la 00:09:21
3. Piano Quintet in A Minor: III. Allegretto 00:04:31
4. String Quartet in G Major: I. Allegro 00:04:06
5. String Quartet in G Major: II. Menuetto I - Trio 00:02:58
6. String Quartet in G Major: III. Adagio 00:04:14
7. String Quartet in G Major: IV. Menuetto II - Trio 00:01:26
8. String Quartet in G Major: V. Presto 00:01:57
9. String Quartet in C Major: I. Larghetto e maestoso 00:10:33
10. String Quartet in C Major: II. Siciliana. Un poco 00:05:15
11. String Quartet in C Major: III. Allegro 00:06:21
Diogenes String Quartet
Stefan Kirpal, violin
Gundula Kirpal, violin
Alba González i Becerra, viola
Stephen Ristau, cello
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