Haydn & Schumann: String Quartets / Elias Quartet

Haydn & Schumann: String Quartets / Elias Quartet - Wigmore Hall Live - WGMR 51 -

Label: Wigmore Hall Live
Catalog No: WGMR 51
Format: CD
Release Date: 2012-05-08
Number of Discs: 1
Running time: 52 min.
Mono/Stereo: Stereo
UPC Code: 5065000924539

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>Haydn, Franz Joseph : Quartet for Strings in E flat major, Op. 64 no 6/H 3 no 64
>Schumann, Robert : Quartet for Strings no 1 in A minor, Op. 41/1
>Word, Spoken : Spoken introduction to the performance of Donald Grant's Lament for Mulroy
>Grant, Donald [Violin] : Lament for Mulroy, for string quartet

Album Summary

>Haydn, Franz Joseph : Quartet for Strings in E flat major, Op. 64 no 6/H 3 no 64
>Schumann, Robert : Quartet for Strings no 1 in A minor, Op. 41/1
>Word, Spoken : Spoken introduction to the performance of Donald Grant's Lament for Mulroy
>Grant, Donald [Violin] : Lament for Mulroy, for string quartet
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Notes & Reviews:

The Elias String Quartet returns to Wigmore Hall Live with a much anticipated disc of Haydn and Schumann, recorded live in concert, September 2010.

Formed at the Royal Northern College of Music in 1998, the ensemble quickly became established among the leading quartets performing internationally today, and is now supported by the prestigious Wigmore Hall Emerging Talent scheme. Widely praised for the vibrancy and intensity of its performances, the quartet has received particular critical acclaim for recent recordings, and in April 2010 its disc of Mendelssohn, Mozart and Schubert on the Wigmore Hall Live label [WGMR 28] received the BBC Music Magazine Newcomer Award.

The Independent
It's a fascinating programme: the Haydn features a dazzling presto finale brimming with theatrical gaiety and virtuoso flair, while the Schumann is explored with marvellous collective vigour and sensitivity - the pulsing drive of both the scherzo and the finale disguising the deft lightness of the bowing.

American Record Guide, September / October 2012
This is a concert that the Elias Quartet played in London's Wigmore Hall on September 12, 2010. The young British ensemble has been winning awards since 2005 and seems to be making a career by playing the chestnuts of the string quartet literature. They are all excellent players, and, thanks to excellent teaching and coaching, they have the mechanics of string quartet playing down.

Notes & Reviews:

Recording information: Wigmore Hall, London, England (09/12/2010).



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Works Details

>Haydn, Franz Joseph : Quartet for Strings in E flat major, Op. 64 no 6/H 3 no 64
  • Ensemble: Elias String Quartet
  • Running Time: 18 min. 3 sec.
  • Period Time: Classical
  • Form: Chamber Music
  • Written: 1790
  • Studio/Live: Live

>Schumann, Robert : Quartet for Strings no 1 in A minor, Op. 41/1
  • Running Time: 27 min. 14 sec.
  • Period Time: Romantic
  • Form: Chamber Music
  • Written: 1842
  • Studio/Live: Live

>Word, Spoken : Spoken introduction to the performance of Donald Grant's Lament for Mulroy
  • Period Time: Post Romantic
  • Studio/Live: Live

>Grant, Donald [Violin] : Lament for Mulroy, for string quartet
  • Running Time: 5 min. 37 sec.
  • Period Time: Contemporary
  • Studio/Live: Live