Quatuors à cordes

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We had been eagerly awaiting their new recording. Three years after Brahms (ALPHA792), the Belcea Quartet returns in a new formation — Suyeon Kang, second violin, joined the quartet in 2023. The Belcea Quartet today presents a new recording of Debussy's Quartet — which was on the program of their very first album 25 years ago — and the two quartets by a musician they hold particularly dear: Karol Szymanowski, a composer with a unique, immediately identifiable language. The first quartet, dated 1917, had its composition interrupted by the Russian Revolution, and its premiere had to wait until 1924. It was only ten years later that Szymanowski — by then a world-renowned composer and a leading figure in the reconstruction of musical life in the young Polish republic — composed his second quartet (1927), which premiered in Warsaw two years later.