Quatuor Van Kuijk: Masterworks

Quatuor Van Kuijk won first prize at the Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition in 2015 along with the Beethoven and Haydn prizes, then went into the BBC New Generation Artists scheme; this is their third visit to China. Adrien Boisseau joins as guest violist for the Asian tour. The format is worth stating plainly: Masterworks plays no complete work. It takes one movement from each of eleven composers' quartets and runs them in rough chronological order across two halves — the introduction to Mozart's "Dissonance", then Brahms, Debussy, Haydn and Mendelssohn; after the interval Smetana, Bartók's pizzicato movement, the Lento from Dvořák's "American", Shostakovich, and finally the Molto adagio from Beethoven's second "Razumovsky" and the finale of Schumann's Op. 41 No. 1. The gain is a three-hundred-year survey of the genre in one sitting, with a very low barrier to entry. The cost is real too: a string quartet's weight lies in how a whole work argues itself out, and a single movement lifted from it — a slow movement especially — is easily reduced to atmosphere. Come to meet the ensemble rather than to meet the works.

1. 01

   Mozart 莫扎特 (1756–1791)

   String Quartet No. 19 in C major, K. 465 "Dissonance"

   C大调第十九弦乐四重奏，K. 465「不和谐」

   K. 465 · C大调 / C major · ~30 min

   I. Adagio – Allegro

2. 02

   Brahms 勃拉姆斯 (1833–1897)

   String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 51 No. 2

   a小调第二弦乐四重奏，作品51之2

   a小调 / A minor

   III. Quasi minuetto, moderato

3. 03

   Debussy 德彪西 (1862–1918)

   String Quartet in G minor, Op. 10

   g小调弦乐四重奏，作品10

   ~25 min

   II. Assez vif et bien rythmé

4. 04

   Haydn 海顿 (1732–1809)

   String Quartet in D major, Op. 76 No. 5

   D大调弦乐四重奏，作品76之5

   D大调 / D major

   II. Molto adagio – Largo cantabile e mesto

5. 05

   Mendelssohn 门德尔松 (1809–1847)

   String Quartet No. 6 in F minor, Op. 80

   f小调第六弦乐四重奏，作品80

   ~26 min

   I. Allegro vivace assai

6. 06

   Smetana 斯美塔那 (1824–1884)

   String Quartet No. 1 in E minor "From My Life"

   e小调第一弦乐四重奏「我的生活」

   e小调 / E minor

   After the interval · I. Allegro vivo appassionato

7. 07

   Bartók 巴托克 (1881–1945)

   String Quartet No. 4, Sz. 91

   第四弦乐四重奏，Sz. 91

   IV. Allegretto pizzicato

8. 08

   Dvořák 德沃夏克 (1841–1904)

   String Quartet No. 12 in F major, Op. 96 "American"

   F大调第十二弦乐四重奏，作品96「美国」

   F大调 / F major

   II. Lento

9. 09

   Shostakovich 肖斯塔科维奇 (1906–1975)

   String Quartet No. 3 in F major, Op. 73

   F大调第三弦乐四重奏，作品73

   F大调 / F major

   III. Allegro non troppo

10. 10

    Beethoven 贝多芬 (1770–1827)

    String Quartet No. 8 in E minor, Op. 59 No. 2 "Razumovsky"

    e小调第八弦乐四重奏，作品59之2「拉祖莫夫斯基」

    e小调 / E minor

    II. Molto adagio

11. 11

    Schumann 舒曼 (1810–1856)

    String Quartet No. 1 in A minor, Op. 41 No. 1

    a小调第一弦乐四重奏，作品41之1

    a小调 / A minor

    IV. Finale

Duration: about 90 minutes · with interval

Quatuor Van Kuijk

Soloist, Viola

Adrien Boisseau

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