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| String Quartets by Opera Composers | 
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| Creators: Engelbert Humperdinck, Giacomo Puccini, Ottorino Respighi, Giuseppe Verdi, Richard Wagner, Ruth Ziesak
Label: Mdg
Category: Music
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (1 reviews)
Sales Rank: 55888
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.7 x 0.4
UPC: 760623149523
EAN: 0760623149523
ASIN: B0014JKLAU
Release Date: May 27, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | Crisantemi 'Elegy' - Engelbert Humperdinck / Giacomo Puccini | | • | Il tramonto - Ottorino Respighi | | • | Albumblatt for Piano in C major 'In das Album der Fuerstin Metternich' - Richard Wagner | | • | Quartet for Strings no 3 in C major: 1st movement, Allegro moderato - Engelbert Humperdinck | | • | Quartet for Strings no 3 in C major: 2nd movement, Gemaechlich - Engelbert Humperdinck | | • | Quartet for Strings no 3 in C major: 3rd movement, Lebhaft - Engelbert Humperdinck | | • | Quartet for Strings in E minor: 1st movement, Allegro - Giuseppe Verdi | | • | Quartet for Strings in E minor: 2nd movement, Andantino - Giuseppe Verdi | | • | Quartet for Strings in E minor: 3rd movement, Prestissimo - Giuseppe Verdi | | • | Quartet for Strings in E minor: 4th movement, Scherzo-Fugue-Allegro assai mosso - Giuseppe Verdi |
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| Customer Reviews:
E. HUMPERDINCK's String Quartet!... May 27, 2008
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The original Engelbert Humperdinck (1854-1921)--(whose delightfully colourful name was grossly hijacked and defamed by an absurd 1970s' soft-pop hack [!])--was at the turn-of-the-century a very talented working musician, assistant to Wagner at Bayreuth, and friend to the doomed Hugo Wolf.
(Humperdinck had been a pupil of both Lachner and Rheinberger
Rheinberger: Nonet in F major; Lachner: Nonet in E flat major.)
Humperdinck's String Quartet in C-major was probably written c. 1905. Not too long at :18 mins duration, it is a gorgeous example of Jugendstil esthetic which invokes folkish gestures in an highly organized architectonic structure featuring emotive themes in imaginative episodes suggestive of narrative.
Engelbert Humperdinck: Haensel und Gretel
Humperdinck: Orchestral Works
Humperdinck: Complete Songs for Voice & Piano
Engelbert Humperdinck: Klavierlieder
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Verdi's e-minor String Quartet (1873) is here nicely performed, with timings closely paralleling the Amadeus' reading.
Amadeus Quartet Plays Bruckner, Smetana, Verdi
Verdi, Puccini: Music for String Quartet
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Puccini's fragrant Chrysanthemums (1890) are richly redolent of the mauve Belle Epoque--and far too short at :05 mins; ditto Wagner's Tristanesque Album-Leaf which cleverly suspends harmony for not even :02 mins.
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Besides his noisome symphonic poems, Respighi wrote a piano quintet, two string quartets, a violin sonata, and this unhinged setting of Shelly's "The Sunset."
Respighi: String Quartets
Respighi: Piano Quintet; String Quartet; Six Pieces for Violin and Piano
Strauss, Respighi: Violin Sonatas [Germany]
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The Leipziger String Quartet is splendid as usual on this concept disc which is a little skimpy at 1 hour's duration.
The star here is Humperdinck's Quartet--a rare catch for aficionados of that most refined genre.
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