This is the new recording we have been waiting for. Three years after Brahms (ALPHA792), the Belcea Quartet returns in a new formation: Suyeon Kang, their new second violin, joined the quartet in 2023. Today the Belcea Quartet presents a new recording of the Debussy Quartet – which they had previously recorded on their very first album 25 years ago – and two quartets by Karol Szymanowski, a composer they are particularly fond of and who possesses a unique and immediately identifiable musical language. The first quartet was composed in 1917 but the Russian Revolution intervened; it’s premiere finally took place in 1924. Szymanowski – then a world-renowned composer and a leading figure in the reconstruction of musical life in the young Polish Republic – wrote his second quartet ten years after the first in 1927; it was premiered in Warsaw two years later.

Tracklist:

1. String Quartet in G Minor, Op. 10~I. Anim et trs dcid
2. String Quartet in G Minor, Op. 10~II. Assez vif et bien rythm
3. String Quartet in G Minor, Op. 10~III. Andantino, doucement expressif
4. String Quartet in G Minor, Op. 10~IV. Trs modr – Trs mouvement et avec passion
5. String Quartet No. 1 in C Major, Op. 37~I. Lento assai – Allegro moderato
6. String Quartet No. 1 in C Major, Op. 37~II. Andantino semplice (In modo d’una canzone)
7. String Quartet No. 1 in C Major, Op. 37~III. Vivace – Scherzando alla burlesca. Vivace ma non troppo
8. String Quartet No. 2, Op. 56~I. Moderato
9. String Quartet No. 2, Op. 56~II. Vivace scherzando
10. String Quartet No. 2, Op. 56~III. Lento

UPC: 3701624510742
Label: Alpha
Release Date: 11.28.25
Format: CD