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Arriaga - String Quartets

Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga (Composer), Arriaga Quartet (Vocals) | Format: Audio CD

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1. St Qt No.1 in d: First Movt: Allegro
2. St Qt No.1 in d: Second Movt: Adagio Con Espressione
3. St Qt No.1 in d: Third Movt: Menuetto. Allegro
4. St Qt No.1 in d: Fourth Movt: Adagio - Allegretto
5. St Qt No.2 in A: First Movt: Allegro Con Brio
6. St Qt No.2 in A: Second Movt: Tema Con Vars
7. St Qt No.2 in A: Third Movt: Menuetto. Scherzo
8. St Qt No.2 in A: Fourth Movt: Andante Ma Non Troppo - Allegro
9. St Qt No.3 in E flat: First Movt: Allegro
10. St Qt No.3 in E flat: Second Movt: Pastorale. Andantino
11. St Qt No.3 in E flat: Third Movt: Menuetto. Allegro
12. St Qt No.3 in E flat: Fourth Movt: Presto Agitato

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BBC Review

Juan Crisóstomo Jacobo Antonio de Arriaga entered this life in Bilbao on 27 January 1806, half a century to the day after Mozart. By the time of his tragically premature death (from tuberculosis) when aged just 19, Arriaga had been hailed widely throughout Europe as the 'Spanish Mozart'. That his reputation persists, not just on the basis of anecdote, less still on productivity (just a handful of works survive) reflects a significant level of creative accomplishment which often passes unheeded.

This is the second integral survey (the trilogy fits comfortably on a single CD) of Arriaga's three string quartets, published in Paris in 1824, to have appeared in recent months. Where the Voces Quartet's unsympathetic traversal for MDG sounded tense, febrile and rough-hewn, this new cycle from the Belgian Arriaga Quartet (which has violinist Michael Guttman as its leader) is vastly superior.

Incidentally, this isn't the first ensemble to take this composer's name as its own; my shelves yielded a Seventies LP of Beethoven's Op. 74 by an indifferent but eponymous British group. The Belgians, however, are highly accomplished. Their venturesome, urgent, refreshingly spontaneous advocacy presents a compelling case for these pleasing but neglected works. Recommended.

Performance ****
Sound ****

© BBC Music Magazine 2001

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3.0 out of 5 stars OK recording, but there are better alternatives 11 Jan 2004
By Louis Lee - Published on Amazon.com
This recording sounds a bit too measured and mannered in terms of tone colour and phrasing when compared to, the Voces on MDG, or the new Casals version. The recording quality too, is slightly diffuse.

These three quartets are relatively unknown gems of the early romantic repertoire and thoroughly deserve to be heard, but one should go for the new Harmonia Mundi Cuarteto Casals version for a refreshing and clean account (superbly recorded too), or the Voces for a totally opposite, romantic view.

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