Debussy & Szymanowski - String Quartets | Alpha ALPHA1074

Debussy & Szymanowski - String Quartets

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Label: Alpha

Cat No: ALPHA1074

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 17th October 2025

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About

This is the new recording we have been waiting for. Three years after Brahms (ALPHA792), the Belcea Quartet returns in a new formation: Suyeon Kang, their new second violin, joined the quartet in 2023. Today the Belcea Quartet presents a new recording of the Debussy Quartet – which they had previously recorded on their very first album 25 years ago – and two quartets by Karol Szymanowski, a composer they are particularly fond of and who possesses a unique and immediately identifiable musical language. The First Quartet was composed in 1917 but the Russian Revolution intervened; its premiere finally took place in 1924. Szymanowski – then a world-renowned composer and a leading figure in the reconstruction of musical life in the young Polish Republic – wrote his Second Quartet ten years after the first in 1927; it was premiered in Warsaw two years later.

Reviews

Corina Belcea’s willingness to soar and slide with such sensual abandon makes it deliciously seductive... The second Szymanowski a decade later takes us even further with its post-Ravel impressionisms, folk finger prints and luminous textures, such intelligent programming.
Record Review (BBC Radio 3) 25 October 2025

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