{"product_id":"2420469","title":"Alma Quartet - The Late Quartets Vol. 1 [CD]","description":"Brand New From Reputable UK Company With 30 Years Experience In Retail, Please Note Not All Our New Items Are Shrink Wrapped.\u003cbr\u003eAll items shipped within 3 working days of payment.\u003cbr\u003ePlease note that all our DVDs are Region 2.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePlease note that not all audio CDs are shrink-wrapped fom the factory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollowing the series devoted to Korngold's string quartets, here is the first instalment in a new project by Alma Quartet and Challenge Classics. In five CDs the Alma Quartet will bring out the late string quartet output by Beethoven and Shostakovich. Each volume will couple a late quartet by the two composers, who shared a 'late style' on this medium.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs much as the now popular sentence naming Shostakovich 'the Beethoven of the 20th Century' is debatable, nobody can deny an amount of contact points between the two composers: above all, the favourite musical mediums and the engagement in historical and political coeval affairs. However, we think that nothing like their Late String Quartets can offer material for a comparative listening and analysis. In both cases we can easily detect what Edward Said defined and discussed as the 'Late Style'. And in both cases we are in front of a complex and vibrant dialectic between a process of abstraction and a moral imperative to stick to the 'hic et nunc'. Such an intellectual and existential confrontation is fruitfully without solution and offers a never-ending space to insights and interpretations. Here we propose Alma Quartet's outlook first instalment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeethoven: String Quartet No. 12 in E-flat Major, Op. 127 - I. Maestoso - Allegro\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eString Quartet No. 12 in E-flat Major, Op. 127 - II. Adagio ma non troppo e molto cantabile\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eString Quartet No. 12 in E-flat Major, Op. 127 - III. Scherzo. Vivace\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eString Quartet No. 12 in E-flat Major, Op. 127 - IV. Finale Allegro\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShostakovich: String Quartet No. 11 in F Minor, Op. 122 - I. Introduction - Andantino\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eString Quartet No. 11 in F Minor, Op. 122 - II. Scherzo - Allegretto\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eString Quartet No. 11 in F Minor, Op. 122 - III. Recitative - Adagio\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eString Quartet No. 11 in F Minor, Op. 122 - IV. Etude - Allegro\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eString Quartet No. 11 in F Minor, Op. 122 - V. Humoresque - Allegro\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eString Quartet No. 11 in F Minor, Op. 122 - VI. Elegy - Adagio\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eString Quartet No. 11 in F Minor, Op. 122 - VII. Finale - Moderato\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chalkys.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54420529447297,"sku":"2420469","price":16.98,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0056\/8043\/1219\/files\/0608917298826.jpg?v=1750593583","url":"https:\/\/chalkys.com\/products\/2420469","provider":"Chalkys.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}