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Box Set Classical

Description:

The Ragatze String Quartet, one of the hottest SQ quartets in the Netherlands, launches the complete Bartók String Quartet Collection! The Ragatze String Quartet is a remarkable quartet from Channel Classics, a high-quality sound label in the Netherlands. Formed by a group of talented female players from the Netherlands, the quartet has been collaborating with artists from various fields, transcending the boundaries of classical music and gaining popularity for its energetic performances, wide repertoire, fascinating and unconventional programs, and elaborate shows. For their fifth Channel Classics album, the group has delved deeply into Béla Bartók's string quartets, which have long fascinated them, and have begun planning a recording of six pieces under the title "Bartok Bound". Bartok Bound is a project that delves deeply into Bartok's string quartets. Through "Bartok Bound," the enchanting and thrilling experience of performing Bartók's string quartets, with all their mysterious tension, loving lyricism, warm string resonance, challenging technique, and exhilarating rhythms rooted in folk dances, will be conveyed.The beautiful illustrations of the Digipak are the work of renowned German artist Olaf Hajek. Tokyo M-Plus

Tracklisting:

1.String Quartet No. 1 in A minor Op. 7 BB52~Lento
2.String Quartet No. 1 in A minor Op. 7 BB52~Allegretto
3.String Quartet No. 1 in A minor Op. 7 BB52~Introduzione: Allegro - Allegro Vivace
4.String Quartet No. 2 in A minor Op. 17 BB75~Moderato
5.String Quartet No. 2 in A minor Op. 17 BB75~Allegro molto capriccioso
6.String Quartet No. 2 in A minor Op. 17 BB75~Lento
7.String Quartet No. 4 in C major BB95~Allegro
8.String Quartet No. 4 in C major BB95~Prestissimo, con sordino
9.String Quartet No. 4 in C major BB95~Non troppo lento
10.String Quartet No. 4 in C major BB95~Allegretto pizzicato
11.String Quartet No. 4 in C major BB95~Allegro molto