Three String Quartets
1995
Audivis Valois
avec Quatuor Debussy
— ONSLOW André Georges
Quartet No. 23 in A major opus 48 (1835)
— DANCLA Charles
String quartet n°8 opus 87 (1852)
— RODE Pierre
Quartet Brillant n°2 (1812)
‘Of all the forms that chamber music can take, the string quartet is the one that demands of the musician the greatest skill in the art of writing combined with the most personal and purest ideas’.
Saint-Saëns
Georges Onslow (1784-1853)
- String quartet n°23, opus 48 (22'55)
- Allegro grazioso (6'04)
- Andante (5'16)
- Scherzo (6'15)
- Finale (5'20)
Charles Dancla (1817-1907)
- String quartet n°8, opus 87 (23'26)
- Moderato grazioso (9'19)
- Andante espressivo (5'39)
- Minuetto (3'21)
- Allegro vivace (5'07)
Pierre Rode (1774-1830)
- Brilliant string quartet n°2 (20'05)
- Andantino, Allegro con fuoco (8'39)
- Andante (5'29)
- Rondo (5'57)
Total length: 66’16
Recorded at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Lyon in 1994 by Christophe Germanique
Artistic advisor: Hatto Beyerlé
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