String Quartets Op. 51 & 103

• Binding : Audio CD
• Creator : Haydn
• EAN : 0730099534628
• Label : Ncl
• Manufacturer : Ncl
• Number Of Discs : 1
• Package Dimensions : 0.54 inches (Height) x 5.55 inches (Length) x 0.18 pounds (Weight) x 4.97 inches (Width)
• Package Quantity : 1
• Product Group : Music
• Publisher : Ncl
• Release Date : 1997-07-31
• SKU : 2768047 4891030503465
• Studio : Ncl
• UPC : 073009953462

The unusual work of Haydn that takes up most of this disc is a series of slow movements, unique in the string quartet literature until Shostakovich came along. It's Haydn's arrangement of an orchestral work, but remains very moving in this version. The other work on the disc is Haydn's last quartet, two movements left incomplete because of, he said, his failing inspiration. You wouldn't know it from the beauty of the movements he did write. The Kodály Quartet plays all this music honestly and sincerely, but somehow their performances lack eloquence; the music stays on the page. It's not bad playing, but you might want to spend more for the expressive Tatrai Quartet (Hungaroton HCD 12036). --Leslie Gerber

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Tracks:

• Disc 1

  • 1: The Seven Last Words Of Jesus Christ Op. 51, Hob. III: 50-56: L'Introduzione: Maestoso ed adagio
  • 2: The Seven Last Words Of Jesus Christ Op. 51, Hob. III: 50-56: Sonata I: Pater, dimitte illis, non enim sciunt, quid faciunt (Largo) (Largo)
  • 3: The Seven Last Words Of Jesus Christ Op. 51, Hob. III: 50-56: Sonata II: Amen dico tibi: hodie mecum eris in paradiso (Grave e cantabile)
  • 4: The Seven Last Words Of Jesus Christ Op. 51, Hob. III: 50-56: Sonata III: Mulier, ecce filius tuus, et tu, ecce mater tua! (Grave)
  • 5: The Seven Last Words Of Jesus Christ Op. 51, Hob. III: 50-56: Sonata IV: Eli, Eli, lama asabthani? (Largo)
  • 6: The Seven Last Words Of Jesus Christ Op. 51, Hob. III: 50-56: Sonata V: Sitio (Adagio)
  • 7: The Seven Last Words Of Jesus Christ Op. 51, Hob. III: 50-56: Sonata VI: Consummatum est! (Lento)
  • 8: The Seven Last Words Of Jesus Christ Op. 51, Hob. III: 50-56: Sonata VII: Pater! in manus tuas commendo spiritum meum - (Largo)
  • 9: The Seven Last Words Of Jesus Christ Op. 51, Hob. III: 50-56: Il terremoto (Presto e con tutta la forza)
  • 10: String Quartet No. 68 In D Minor, Op. 103 Hob. III: 83: Andante grazioso
  • 11: String Quartet No. 68 In D Minor, Op. 103 Hob. III: 83: Menuetto ma non troppo presto

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