IDAGIO | Béla Bartók: String Quartets Nos. 3 & 4 - Leo Weiner: String Quartet No. 3 3149028137378

Featuring

István Párkányi
Heinz Oberdorfer
Ferdinand Erblich
Michael Müller
Párkányi Quartet
Béla Bartók

Leó Weiner

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Composition History

Leo Weiner, a Hungarian composer, published his first String Quartet in 1906, predating those of his compatriots Dohnányi and Bartók.

Compositional Technique

Béla Bartók's musical style is characterized by archaic scales, intervals like the tritone and minor third, frequent use of the perfect fourth, and numerous major and minor seconds, creating a 'chromatic whole'.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Béla Bartók stated that even in his most abstract works, like his String Quartets, a certain indescribable spirit of Central European rural tradition is evident.

Recording & Production

This album was recorded in the Domovina Studio in Prague, with the Weiner piece recorded in July 2006 and the Bartók pieces in June 2008.

Compositional Technique

The final Fugue in Leo Weiner's String Quartet No. 3 is based on a folk theme noted by László Lajtha, an ethnomusicologist, from a bagpipe player in Komárunó county.

Performer Biography

The Párkányi Quartet was formed in 1976 as the Orlando String Quartet and won first prize at the Carlo Jachino International String Quartet Competition in Rome that same year.

Composer Biography

Béla Bartók, a Hungarian composer, was attracted to the string quartet genre throughout his career, even attempting a seventh quartet on his deathbed in 1945.