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Streichquartette

Chausson & D'indy

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Format: CD

Cat No: CDH55457

Release Date:  01 February 2013

Label:  Helios / Hyperion Records Ltd

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  034571154572

Genres:  Classical  Chamber Music  

  • Description

    Ernest Chausson died when his bicycle crashed into a wall. Among the various projects he left behind were some orchestral overtures, a violin sonata, a second symphony and this string quartet. He had finished the first two movements of the quartet and was nearly at the end of the third when the accident happened. D’Indy completed the third movement and it is for this reason it seems appropriate to couple the two works on this recording. Vincent d’Indy, once one of Franck’s pupils, completed three string quartets in his lifetime and left one incomplete on his death. He used traditional forms of sonata structure, lied, dance form and rondo for the four movements and with traditional emphases on rhythmic development and key contrasts, but followed Franckian, so-called ‘cyclic’ techniques of melodic transformation, designed to unify the work as a whole. The first quartet is based around a four-note motif found in Mahler’s Symphony No 1, which d’Indy almost certainly would not have known, and as the Bell motif in the first act of Parsifal (which he certainly did know).

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. <b>ERNEST CHAUSSON | String Quartet in C minor Op 35</b> [28'15] - Chilingirian Quartet
      • 2. <b>VINCENT DINDY | String Quartet No 1 in D major Op 35</b> [36'31] - Chilingirian Quart