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Fine Arts Quartet – Beethoven: Early Quartets (Remastered from the Original Concert-Disc Master Tapes) (1969/2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:26:21 minutes | 2,62 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Concert-Disc
The period during which the Middle Quartets were written covers the years from around 1806 to 1810: the three Quartets, Opus 59 date from 1806-7, Opus 74 from 1809, and Opus 95 from 1810. During these same years, Beethoven composed his Fifth and Sixth Symphonies, the Violin Concerto, the E flat Piano Concerto, and the music to Egmont.
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Ryoko Morooka, Stepan Simonian, Ralph Evans, Efim Boico, Gil Sharon, Niklas Schmidt, Fine Arts Quartet – Dvořák: String Quartet No. 2, Bagatelles & Rondo, B. 171 (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:15:04 minutes | 748 MB | Genre: Classical
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Antonín Dvořák is revered as one of the greatest composers of late 19th-century Romanticism. He is celebrated for the kind of poignant melodies redolent of Czech folk music found in the utterly charming Bagatelles and Rondo – the haunting tunes and harmonic twists of which represent the distinctive style that brought him international fame. Less known is that during the years 1868–70 Dvořák composed in a style so wild for the time that it foreshadowed the modernistic innovations of Schoenberg and his contemporaries. Dvořák’s Second Quartet reveals fascinating examples of early experimentation before his transition into the harmonious Slavic style for which he is so beloved.
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Alon Goldstein, Fine Arts Quartet, Rachel Calin – Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 20 & 21 (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 57:50 minutes | 1,86 GB | Genre: Classical
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To make Mozart’s Piano Concertos K. 466 and K. 467 more accessible to the public, the 19th-century composer Ignaz Lachner left the piano parts untouched and made splendid transcriptions of the orchestra parts for just string quartet with added bass. These chamber versions of two of Mozart’s greatest and most popular concertos sound almost as natural as if Mozart had transcribed them himself.
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Fine Arts Quartet, Anna Kreetta Gribajcevic, Jens Peter Maintz – Spirit of Bohemia (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:18:28 minutes | 2,54 GB | Genre: Classical
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Antonín Dvořák’s music, imbued with the spirit of Bohemia, reflects a love of his native land. His String Sextet, written in the distinctive style which brought him international fame, was an immediate success at its premiere. Composed just eight years earlier, his String Quartet No. 4, unpublished until 1968, features pioneering, wild outer movements, highly unusual for the time, which foreshadowed the modernist innovations of composers decades later. A moving Andante religioso, which Dvořák made use of in future works, lies at its heart. The Polonaise exploits both the soulful and virtuoso character of the cello.
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Fine Arts Quartet – Beethoven: Works for String Quartet (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:10:15 minutes | 1,33 GB | Genre: Classical
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The string quartets of Beethoven are among the greatest works of their kind, but he composed other works for quartet which have been neglected. This album is dedicated to these intriguing rarities. Alongside the wild and monumental Grosse Fuge, in many ways the culmination of Beethoven’s achievements in the string quartet genre, this recording further displays his mastery of counterpoint by bringing to light brilliant yet forgotten original versions of his quartets Op. 18, No. 1 and Op. 131, plus six virtually unknown miniatures, including his Preludes and Fugues.
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Alon Goldstein & Fine Arts Quartet – Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 9 & 17 (Arr. I. Lachner for Piano & String Quintet) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:43 minutes | 1,05 GB | Genre: Classical
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Mozart himself had arranged four of his earlier concertos for the ensemble of piano, string quartet and bass, to enable his works to be performed domestically. Numerous subsequent transcriptions followed during the course of the 19th century, prominently those of the conductor and composer Ignaz Lachner. The concertos here are K. 271, “Jeunehomme”, a particularly brilliant work, and the charming K. 453. Leaving the piano part untouched, Lachner ingeniously incorporates all the orchestral music, including wind parts, into his string transcriptions.
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