Gabrieli String Quartet – Tchaikovsky: String Quartet No. 1 in D Major, Op. 11 (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Gabrieli String Quartet – Tchaikovsky: String Quartet No. 1 in D Major, Op. 11 (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 27:50 minutes | 512 MB | Genre: Classical
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Tchaikovsky’s First Quartet, Borodin’s Second and Shostakovich’s Eighth are three of the finest quartets in the Russian repertory. They reveal that Russian composers were hardly less at home in the relatively private medium of the string quartet than when writing for the more spectacular full symphony orchestra. Both, the Tchaikovsky and the Borodin have received fame beyond the originals for their slow movements – the Tchaikovsky for its ‘Andante cantabile’ movement, the Borodin for its ‘nocturne’. The Gabrielis were one of the first ensemble to make stereo recordings of all three quartets and the Borodins’ 1962 recording (their original line-up) of the Borodin and Shostakovich quartets is one of the great chamber music recordings of all time.

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Gabrieli String Quartet – Tchaikovsky: Complete String Quartets (1977/2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Gabrieli String Quartet – Tchaikovsky: Complete String Quartets (1977/2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:40:23 minutes | 1,80 GB | Genre: Classical
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Although the orchestra was the most natural vehicle for Tchaikovsky s colourful and emotionally highly-charged music, in his string quartets (all dating from the 1870s) he showed a fine understanding of the medium and adopted a more purely musical train of thought deriving in part from his deep fondness for the classical world of Mozart without losing his own personality. Souvenir de Florence, his string sextet, dates from 1890 91 and Tchaikovsky confided in his friend Alexander Siloti that he feared he was thinking in orchestral terms before arranging his ideas for string sextet; the work is performed here in a version for string orchestra, from a much-praised Argo recording with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, which went on to win an EDISON AWARD.

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