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Ravel, Debussy & Dutilleux – STRING QUARTETS / 1 CD / Arcanto Quartett
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Ravel, Debussy & Dutilleux – STRING QUARTETS / 1 CD / Arcanto Quartett
STRING QUARTETS
Ravel, Debussy & Dutilleux Claude Debussy: String Quartet in G minor, Op. 10 Henri Dutilleux: String Quartet ‘Ainsi la nuit' Maurice Ravel: String Quartet in F major Arcanto Quartett HARMONIA MUNDI 2010 / 1 CD / 1h 11' 19''
Unlike Beethoven and Bartok, both haunted by the string quartet throughout their creative life, most French composers were cautious in their approach to a formation long associated with the Austro-German tradition. Debussy, Ravel and more recently Dutilleux, all noted for their mastery of orchestration, each visited it only once ‚Äď but with outstanding success!
Antje Weithaas, Daniel Sepec, Tabea Zimmermann and Jean-Guihen Queyras
founded the Arcanto Quartet in 2002. The four musicians, who in addition
to their musical affinities share a close personal friendship, quickly
conquered the world of chamber music and have played all the major
European venues. The 2009/10 season started with a tour of Japan in
September, followed by a residency at the Wigmore Hall, where the
quartet invited Jörg Widmann, Silke Avenhaus and Olivier Marron for
several concerts. This autumn, the Arcantos will visit North America.
For their third CD for harmonia mundi they perform three French String
Quartets, all by composers who wrote little chamber music. Debussy and
Ravel composed their only string quartet at the start of their careers,
whereas Dutilleux wrote Ainsi la nuit shortly before his 60th birthday.
Debussy’s quartet, dedicated to the Ysaÿe Quartet, is his only work to
possess an opus number. Written in 1892-3, it comprises the standard
four movements and adopts sonata form in the two outer movements. The
String Quartet of Ravel was composed in 1902-03 and premiered by the
Heyman Quartet on 5 March 1904. It possesses undeniable signs of kinship
with the Debussy work: it conforms to the cyclic principle, and begins
and ends with a sonata form movement; its scherzo is similarly
characterised by crackling pizzicatos which stylise the sound of the
guitar and give the movement a Spanish colour; as with Debussy, the
strings play with mutes in the first and last sections of the slow
movement. The works of Dutilleux are rare and matured at length.
Commissioned by the Serge Koussevitzky Foundation, Ainsi la nuit
occupied the composer from 1971 to 1976. Dedicated ‘to the memory of
Ernest Sussman [an American art-lover and friend of the composer] and in
homage to Olga Koussevitzky’, it was premièred by the Parrenin Quartet
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