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    I. Allegro con fuoco II. Scherzo. Allegro vivace III. Poco andante IV. Allegro assai The Quintet in G that Dvorák completed in 1875, and called Op.18, was composed for a chamber music competition sponsored by the Prague-based Artistic Circle. It won the competition (and prize money)...
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    I. Allegro, molto deciso ed energico II. Thema und Variationen III. Phantasie. Adagio Ernst Heinrich Křenek was born in Vienna, the son of a Czech soldier. He showed early musical promise and after studying under Schreker in Vienna, then Berlin, he began conducting in German...
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    I. Allegro II. Andante molto III. Presto IV. Allegro Sibelius was in his mid-twenties when he wrote his B-flat String Quartet and he worked on it from the summer of 1889 to September 1890. Sibelius commentators have speculated that the Adagio in D minor (JS 12) may have been intended...
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    I. Adagio - Allegro II. Adagio cantabile III. Menuetto. Allegro IV. Finale. Allegretto Like quite a few of his later quartets Haydn begins op.71/2 with a brief slow introduction. The first violin drops a few octaves before we head into the Allegro’s vital, main subject (more...
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    I. Introduzione. Lento - Allegro. Sempre maestoso II. Menuetto. Allegro energico III. Andante IV. Finale. Presto George Onslow was born in Clermont-Ferrand, France, the son of a wealthy parents (an aristocratic, MP English father and a French mother). His paternal grandfather...
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    I. Allegro con brio II. Menuet & Trio: Allegretto III. Adagio, cantabile e sostenuto IV. Finale: Presto Haydn's Op.64 set was published in 1790 and dedicated to Johann Tost, Principal 2nd violin in Haydn’s Esterhazy Orchestra. It came at a time when he...
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    Lasse Thoresen is a Norwegian composer whose works focus on the transformation of the folk-music of Scandinavia. He graduated in composition in 1972 from the Oslo Music Conservatory and then studied electro acoustic music and composition at the Institute of Sonology in Utrecht. Pretty soon he...
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    I. Poco adagio II. Menuetto. Allegretto - Trio III. Largo cantabile IV. Finale. Presto Haydn’s Op 9 quartets are seen by some (not me, btw) as his first ‘mature’ set and mark a break of 5 years from his op.2 set. Ignoring the 'mature' tag I would agree that these works are...
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    Sehr Mässig - Heftig und Leidenschaftlich - Andante mosso - Etwas rascher - Adagio - Schnell - Im selben Tempo, doch sehr ruhig - Mit energischer Entschlossenheit - Tempo I (Molto Allegro) - Langsam Alexander Zemlinsky showed great musical promise at an early age and due to this was enrolled at...
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    I. Lebhaft und sehr energisch II. Sehr langsam III. Finale. Ausserst lebhaft Firstly, I need to thank and acknowledge my good friend Knorf for pointing me in the direction of this fine quartet. But for his insistence that I listen to it I wouldn't have got round to it for maybe a...
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    I. Allegro con brio II. Andante più tosto allegretto III. Menuetto: Allegretto IV. Presto To conclude my reviews of the op.50 quartets I've turned to op.50/3. Like the other quartets in the series the 3rd was written in 1787 and dedicated to King Frederick William II of Prussia. Like...
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    I. Allegro di molto II. Andante III. Menuetto. Allegretto IV. Finale. Allegro Mozart's K.614 String Quintet was completed on the 12th April 1791 (8 months before he died) and was Mozart’s last major chamber composition. Different in tone than his later quartets it’s one of...
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    I. Vivace II. Adagio III. Menuetto. Allegro - Trio IV. Finale. Vivace assai Like the rest of the op.50 quartets, Haydn composed the 2nd quartet of the series in 1787 and dedicated it to amateur cellist and music-lover King Frederick William II of Prussia. It's different in...
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    I. Allegro energico - largamente II. Quasi minuetto III. Adagio ma non troppo - Allegro con brio Frank Bridge completed his 4th String Quartet in 1937, when he was in his late 50s, and it was commissioned and dedicated to his generous patron, Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge. It was...
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    I. Allegro II. Adagio III. Menuetto. Poco allegretto - Trio IV. Finale. Vivace Written in 1787, Haydn dedicated his op.50 set to the music-loving, amateur cellist King Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia. The first of the set is an interesting and minimalist one as Haydn, once again...
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    I. Vivace assai II. Andante III. Scherzo. IV. Finale. Allegretto Finally time for the last of my op.33 reviews and this time it's a personal favourite Both the 5th and 6th quartets of the op.33 set share some similarities in basic structure (1st movement is quick, 2nd...
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    I. Vivace assai II. Largo e cantabile III. Scherzo. Allegro - Trio IV. Finale. Allegretto I'm sure I don't need to go into too much detail (check my other Op.33 Quartet blogs) here but the op.33 quartets were written by Autumn of 1781 and dedicated to the Grand Duke Paul of...
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    I. Larghetto - Allegro II. Adagio III. Menuetto. Allegretto - Trio IV. Allegro Mozart's last 2 string quintets were composed between the the winter of 1790 and spring of the following year. Both were published in 1793 and dedicated to an anonymous ‘Hungarian amateur’ believed to...
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    I. Allegro II. Scherzo. Allegro moderato III. Andante sostenuto IV. Finale. Allegro moderato Glazunov had a key role in music history as the student of Rimsky-Korsakov and being the teacher of Prokofiev and Shostakovich. His reputation as a composer was excellent and by the...
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    I. Allegro ma non troppo II. Adagio III. Scherzo. Presto - Trio. Andante sostenuto IV. Allegretto Schubert's Op.163, D956 String Quintet was his first and only String Quintet. Schubert completed the quintet in October, 1828 when his health was deteriorating. His appetite was...
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