Nadarejshvili, Prokofiev: String Quartets

On this CD:

1. String Quartet No. 1 in B minor, Op. 50
Composed by Sergey Prokofiev


2. String Quartet No. 1
Composed by Zurab Nadarejshvili


3. String Quartet No. 2 in F major ("Kabardinian"), Op. 92
Composed by Sergey Prokofiev


Nadarejshvili, Prokofiev: String Quartets, Music, Zurab Nadarejshvili, Sergey Prokofiev, Chamber, Chamber Music, Classical, Classical Composers, Classical Music, Orchestral & Symphonic, Quartet for Four String Instruments
Nadarejshvili, Prokofiev: String Quartets
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Music from a troubled people
 Nadarejshvili, Prokofiev: String Quartets

Manufacturer: Delos Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

QuartetsQuartets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music
GeneralGeneral | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music
GeneralGeneral | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music
GeneralGeneral | Classical | Styles | Music
All Works by ProkofievAll Works by Prokofiev | Prokofiev, Sergei | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music
ASIN: B00000JHLN
Release Date: 1999-07-27

Tracks:

  1. Allegro
  2. Andante Molto
  3. Andante
  4. Adagio
  5. Allegro Vivace
  6. Ad Libitum (Quasi Adagio)
  7. Allegro Sostenuto
  8. Adagio
  9. Allegro

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Music from a troubled people.......1999-08-10

There are many recordings of the Prokofiev but a new Delos release (DE 3247) combines them with the recording premiere of Zurab Nadarejshvili's 1987 and the result is a stunning 72 minutes of Russian chamber music. Drawing upon the never very happy events of Russia's history in this century, the Nadarejshvili work begins with music based on Georgian chants to reflect the feelings of that people under the influence of Stalin and the Second World War. The second movement "echoes the pseudo-folk songs of the 1930s," the last movement mourns the dead. All of this is explained, a bit briefly, in the notes; but music should be absolute and this work speaks for itself. By way of contrast, the producers decided to sandwich that work between the two by Prokofiev, both of which should be fairly familiar to anyone already "into" 20th century Russian music. Suffice it to say here that the St. Petersburg String Quartet certainly plays with the "passion" mentioned in the press release. I leave it to you to judge the "mastery" also mentioned there. For myself, I hear nothing but convincing and dedicated playing.

Music Review:

  1. Opera For Pleasure: Tenors
  2. Orchestral Suites Nos. 1-4
  3. Organ Works of Portuguese Masters
  4. Organa Antiqua Bohemica
  5. Otto Wolf Tenor Wagner Aufnahmen 1922-25
  6. Our Living Composers Vol. I
  7. Perosi: Suite No6; Clarinet Concerto
  8. Piano Concertos 1
  9. Piano Music Complete
  10. Piano Trio Op90 Dumky

Music Review

music review

Music Review

Pure Trance: 40 Essential Clubland Floorfillers [Import]

Symphony 4 E Minor Op 98 / Variations Op 56a

Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 in B flat major, Op. 100 / Scythian Suite, for orchestra, Op. 20 / Dreams, symphonic poem, Op. 6

This Is Always

The Third Man [Enhanced]

Rancheras Y Con Banda

Stormbringer (UK) [Import]

Think Tank

Planeta Atlantida Hits [Import]

Tallis: Complete Works Vol 4 / Dixon, Chapelle du Roi

The Man Behind The Curtain

Pura Dinamita [Import]

Strait Zooism [Explicit Lyrics]

Mahler 3 [Hybrid SACD]

Best of Chris Isaak (CD + DVD)