Carl Nielsen: Streichquartette Nr.1 & 2 (CD)

Carl Nielsen (1865-1931)

Georgios Demertzis, Maria Asteriadou

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+2 Quartettsätze; Sonate für Violine & Klavier Nr. 1; Duett Nr. 1 für 2 Violinen; Romanze für Violine & Klavier D-Dur; Romanze op. 2 für Violine & Klavier

Artists:: Georgios Demertzis, Maria Asteriadou, New Hellenic Quartet
Label:: BIS
Year of recording ca.:: 2001
Item number:: 6202354
UPC/EAN:: 7318590014448
Release date:: 21.11.2006

The liner notes to this release have the title 'Chamber music as a formative process', alluding to the fact that the works included were all composed before Nielsen turned 25. Indeed, some of them were even written during his time as a member of the military band in the little town of Odense, before going to the Conservatory in Copenhagen and, later, becoming the renowned composer that we know today. It is therefore not surprising if the uncertainties of a young man at times shine through in these scores, as do the various influences he was exposed to in the process of becoming a composer. Mozart is there, and Beethoven, and Mendelssohn - and the infectious joy of a budding artist putting his musical ideas onto paper!

The foremost defender of these scores is Georgios Demertzis, who plays on every track on the disc; on his own, with the support of pianist Maria Asteriadou and in his role as first violinist of the New Hellenic Quartet. On a previously released companion disc (BIS-CD-1284) Demertzis plays Nielsen's mature works for violin with and without piano. His and Asteriadou's performances received high praise from the reviewers - the critic in The Strad called the disc 'highly stimulating' with the added description: ‘Come with me, Nielsen seems to say, and Demertzis follows with a will.’

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Sonate Nr. 1 G-Dur für Violine und Klavier

1 1. Allegro
2 2. Andante grazioso
3 3. Scherzo

Duett Nr. 1 A-Dur für 2 Violinen

4 1. Allegro
5 2. Andante
6 3. Rondo: Allegro vivace

7 Romance D-Dur für Violine und Klavier

Quartett Nr. 1 d-moll

8 1. Allegro vivace
9 2. Andante
10 3. Scherzo: Allegro
11 4. Finale: Allegro molto

Quartett Nr. 2 F-Dur

12 1. Allegro - Presto
13 2. Andante tranquillamente
14 3. Menuetto: Allegro moderato
15 4. Allegro molto

2 Quartett Sätze

16 1. Andante sostenuto
17 2. Scherzo

18 Romanze op. 2

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