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Title: The String Quartets
Artist: Stenhammar Quartet
Label: Bis
Product Type: SUPER-AUDIO CD
UPC: 7318599927091
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2023-02-03
Number of Discs: 3
Additional Details: HYBRID SACD

Composed between 1894 and 1916 Wilhelm Stenhammar's body of six numbered string quartets is considered unique among Scandinavian music of it's time, both in it's consistency and in it's musical aspirations. Together, the quartets reflect the composer's development, from full-blown Romanticism to a more sparse and formally concentrated idiom that distances itself from late-Romantic conventions. Taking it's name from the composer, the Stenhammar Quartet was the first ever to propose a complete traversal of the cycle on CD, including the world première recording of a quartet in F minor that Stenhammar withdrew from his official catalogue after completing it. The series was greeted with great international interest and critical acclaim, both for performances described as 'exceptional' (The Guardian) and for the quality of the music itself: 'there is no doubt that Stenhammar belongs to the unknown great masters of the string quartet genre' (Klassik-Heute. De).

Tracks:
1.1 String Quartet No. 1 in C major, Op. 2~I. Allegro
1.2 String Quartet No. 1 in C major, Op. 2~II. Mesto. Sehr einfach, aber mit der innigsten Empfindug vorzutragen
1.3 String Quartet No. 1 in C major, Op. 2~III. Molto tranquillo e commodo - Un pochettino piu leggiero
1.4 String Quartet No. 1 in C major, Op. 2~IV. Allegro energico
1.5 String Quartet No. 2 in C minor, Op. 14~I. Allegro moderato
1.6 String Quartet No. 2 in C minor, Op. 14~II. Andante quasi adagio
1.7 String Quartet No. 2 in C minor, Op. 14~III. Scherzo. Allegro vivace - Trio. Molto espressivo
1.8 String Quartet No. 2 in C minor, Op. 14~IV. Finale. Allegro energico e serioso
2.1 String Quartet No. 4 in A minor, Op. 25~I. Allegro ma non troppo
2.2 String Quartet No. 4 in A minor, Op. 25~II. Adagio
2.3 String Quartet No. 4 in A minor, Op. 25~III. Scherzo. Allegro
2.4 String Quartet No. 4 in A minor, Op. 25~IV. Aria variata. Andante semplice
2.5 Lodolezzi sjunger (Lodolezzi Sings), Op. 39~Elegi. Lento
2.6 Lodolezzi sjunger (Lodolezzi Sings), Op. 39~Intermezzo. Allegro agitato
2.7 String Quartet No. 3 in F major, Op. 18~I. Quasi andante
2.8 String Quartet No. 3 in F major, Op. 18~II. Presto molto agitato
2.9 String Quartet No. 3 in F major, Op. 18~III. Lento sostenuto
2.10 String Quartet No. 3 in F major, Op. 18~IV. Presto molto agitato - Molto moderato
3.1 String Quartet No. 5 in C major, Op. 29 (Serenade)~I. Allegro molto con spirito
3.2 String Quartet No. 5 in C major, Op. 29 (Serenade)~II. Ballata. Allegretto scherzando (paraphrase on 'Finn Komfusenfej)
3.3 String Quartet No. 5 in C major, Op. 29 (Serenade)~III. Scherzo. Allegro vivace
3.4 String Quartet No. 5 in C major, Op. 29 (Serenade)~IV. Finale. Allegro molto
3.5 String Quartet in F minor~I. Allegro
3.6 String Quartet in F minor~II. Adagio. Con intimissimo sentimento, poco scherzando
3.7 String Quartet in F minor~III. Allegro giocoso
3.8 String Quartet in F minor~IV. Allegretto
3.9 String Quartet No. 6 in D minor, Op. 35~I. Tempo moderato, sempre un poco rubato
3.10 String Quartet No. 6 in D minor, Op. 35~II. Allegro vivace
3.11 String Quartet No. 6 in D minor, Op. 35~III. Poco adagio
3.12 String Quartet No. 6 in D minor, Op. 35~IV. Presto