Artist: Arcadia Quartet Title: Weinberg: String Quartets, Vol. 3 Year Of Release: 2023 Label: Chandos Genre: Classical Quality: flac 24bits - 96.0kHz + Booklet Total Time: 01:06:32 Total Size: 3 1.15 gb Tracklist 01. String Quartet No. 4 in E-Flat Major, Op. 20: I. Allegro commodo 02. String Quartet No. 4 in E-Flat Major, Op. 20: II. Moderato assai 03. String Quartet No. 4 in E-Flat Major, Op. 20: III. Largo marciale 04. String Quartet No. 4 in E-Flat Major, Op. 20: IV. Allegro moderato 05. String Quartet No. 16 in A-Flat Minor, Op. 130: I. Allegro - Moderato 06. String Quartet No. 16 in A-Flat Minor, Op. 130: II. Allegro - Andantino 07. String Quartet No. 16 in A-Flat Minor, Op. 130: III. Lento 08. String Quartet No. 16 in A-Flat Minor, Op. 130: IV. Moderato 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