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String Quartet (Blumenfeld)

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Felix Blumenfeld's String Quartet in F major, Op. 26, is the composer's only work for the medium. Published in 1898, the quartet was dedicated to music publisher Mitrofan Belyayev.

Structure

The work is structured in four movements:

  1. Allegro - Poco più tranquillo - Tempo I - Allegro molto
  2. Presto - Molto meno mosso - Tempo del Scherzo (Presto) - Più mosso
  3. Andantino - Poco più mosso - Largamente
  4. Finale: Allegro molto - Un poco più tranquillo - Più mosso - Tempo I (Tranquillo) - Più tranquillo - Più mosso - Coda: Molto più mosso - Prestissimo

The first commercial recording of the quartet by the Odessa quartet was released by Profil in 2015.

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Notes
  1. Records International 2015
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