The Eroica Quartet, the performers on this album, specializes in rediscovering 19th-century performing techniques and styles, including the use of gut strings for these recordings.
Compositional Technique
Debussy's String Quartet features spectacularly inventive writing for string instruments, which influenced Ravel's quartet written a decade later.
Compositional Technique
Ravel's String Quartet features brilliant cross-rhythms and irregular time signatures, moving freely between 5/8, 5/4, and 3/4, giving the finale a unique momentum.
Critical Reception
Debussy's String Quartet was initially met with indifference and was 'little understood except by the most progressive fringes of the musical public' at its premiere.
Recording & Production
Maurice Ravel personally approved the first recording of his String Quartet in 1927, even providing feedback on tempos and effects.
Composition History
Ravel's String Quartet is dedicated to his teacher, Gabriel Fauré, who initially had doubts about the work but later reconsidered.
Compositional Technique
Both Debussy's and Ravel's String Quartets on this album make use of cyclic themes, where material from the first movement reappears throughout the work.
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