溫伯格: 弦樂四重奏第三集, 第4,16號
阿卡迪亞四重奏

As with the previous volumes in their survey of the quartets of Weinberg, the Arcadia Quartet have selected a pair of works from contrasting stylistic periods of the composer's output. The Fourth Quartet was composed in 1945, shortly after Weinberg had moved to Moscow. The Quartet presents an abstract, psychologically universal picture – a testimony both to the composer's artistic maturity and to the affinity that Weinberg had discovered with Shostakovich.

The Sixteenth Quartet was composed between 1 January and 15 February 1981. It carries a dedication to Weinberg's sister, Ester, who had perished following the Nazi invasion of Poland and would have been sixty that year. Typical of his later compositional style, the writing is more muscular, harmonically complex, and intense.

MIECZYSLAW WEINBERG
String Quartets, Volume 3

String Quartet No.4, Op.20 35:35
in E-Flat Major • in Es-Dur • en mi bemol majeur
Den Mitgliedern des GABT-Quartetts gewidmet:
I. A. Schuk, B.I. Weltman, M.Sch. Gurwitsch, I.M. Burawskij
[GABT = State Academic Bolshoy Theatre]
1. I Allegro commodo - Meno mosso - Tempo I 11:18
2. II Moderato assai 7:10
3. III Largo marciale - 10:20
4. IVAllegro moderato - Poco a poco agitato - Allegro furioso - Tempo I 6:45

String Quartet No.16, Op.130 30:50
in A-Flat Minor • in as-Moll • en la bemol mineur
Im Gedenken an meine Schwester
5. I Allegro - Moderato - Largo9:03
6. II Allegro - Andantino - Allegro - Andantino - Tempo I 5:19
7. III Lento - 6:50
8. IV Moderato 9:37

Total time: 66:22
Arcadia Quartet
Ana Torok violin
Rasvan Dumitru violin
Traian Boala viola
Zsolt Torok cello