Binneas Quartet
Haydn’s String Quartet Op. 76 No. 1, Bartók’s String Quartet No. 6 and arrangements from Dvořák’s Cypresses form a warm, assured programme from Melbourne’s Binneas Quartet.
Melbourne’s Binneas Quartet takes its name from the Gaelic word for purity and sweetness of sound, and that quality shapes this recording.
The programme pairs Haydn’s String Quartet Op. 76 No. 1 with Bartók’s String Quartet No. 6, and sets between them a group of delightful arrangements from Dvořák’s Cypresses.
Reviews
Binneas impressed with its fresh approach and secure ensemble work ... the quartet excelled in warmth and luminosity of tone color ... All credit is due to these enterprising and engaging young artists.
Artists
Béla Bartók
Béla Bartók forged a modernist language from peasant song, asymmetrical dance rhythms and pungent harmony. His string quartets, piano bagatelles and graded teaching pieces still sound raw, lucid and fiercely alive.
Franz Joseph Haydn
Franz Joseph Haydn (1732–1809) was an Austrian composer of the Classical period, central to the making of the symphony, the string quartet and the piano trio. A vast body of chamber, orchestral and sacred music from his long career shaped the language of his age.
Antonín Dvořák
Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904) was a Czech composer whose music fused the folk rhythms and melodies of Bohemia and Moravia with the Romantic symphonic tradition, earning lasting international renown.
Tracks
String Quartet Op. 76 No. 1 (Franz Joseph Haydn)
Cypresses (Antonín Dvořák)
Death reigns in many a human breast
Never will love lead us to that glad goal
Nature lies peaceful in slumber and dreaming
String Quartet No. 6 (Béla Bartók)
Performer
Where to listen
Binneas Quartet is available as a CD. It can be purchased online through Buywell Music or the Australian Music Centre which both offer online ordering.
Product details
- Catalogue number
- MCD 067
- List price
- $25.00 AUD
- Musical work
copyright - © Move Records
- Sound recording
copyright - ℗ Move Records
- Category
- Classical
- Genres
- Modernist Classical, Romantic & Impressionist
- Barcode
- EAN 9314574006728
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