Richter: Quartets Op 5 Nos 1-3; Mozart: Transcriptions K 405.4, 405.3, 562c) /Rincontro_音乐专辑
Richter: Quartets Op 5 Nos 1-3; Mozart: Transcriptions K 405.4, 405.3, 562c) /Rincontro
表演者: Rincontro
专辑类型: CD
介质: Audio CD
发行时间: 2006-04-04
唱片数: 1
出版者: Alpha
条形码: 3760014190896
专辑简介
Richter (1709-1789) was a bass singer trained as a composer by Fux's counterpoint textbook Gradus ad Parnassum, and three of his string quartets are on a disc with three works by Mozart because all of them are imbued by the spirit of counterpoint. Counterpoint, of course, was rare in the latter half of the eighteenth century when clarity and comprehensibility were all the rage. But Richter and Mozart, along with fellow composer Haydn, knew the value of contrapuntal writing, and all three made occasional use of the technique in their string quartets. On this disc, two of the three quartets by Richter include contrapuntal finales, while all three works by Mozart are contrapuntal from start to finish. As an exercise in musicology, this disc is fascinating.
As a performance of music, it is even better. Taking its name from one of Richter's contrapuntal finales, the Rincontro Quartet plays with maximum clarity and total comprehensibility without surrendering any beauty of tone, strength of rhythm, and brilliance of ensemble. In the fugues, one can always follow the lines without any sense of pedantry but rather of keen intellectual enjoyment. And in the expressive Andantes and the exuberant Allegros, one can simply sit back and enjoy the virtuoso playing. Captured in Alpha's clean, deep sound, this is a disc that any aficionado of eighteenth century string quartets will enjoy immensely. ~ James Leonard, All Music Guide
曲目
Franz Xaver Richter:
String Quartet in C major, Op. 5/1 20:15
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:
Fugue for string quartet No. 4 in D minor (transcribed from J. S. Bach's BWV 877), K. 405/4 2:55
Franz Xaver Richter:
String Quartet in B flat major, Op. 5/2 24:48
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:
Fugue for string quartet No. 3 in E major (transcribed from J. S. Bach's BWV 878), K. 405/3 3:35
Franz Xaver Richter:
String Quartet in A major, Op. 5/3 17:11
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:
Canon in 4 parts in C major for 2 violins, viola & bass, K. Anh. 191 (K. 562c) 2:37
