Artist: Belcea Quartet Title: Debussy & Szymanowski: Quartets Year Of Release: 2025 Label: Alpha Classics Genre: Classical Quality: 24bit-96kHz FLAC (tracks + booklet) Total Time: 01:04:49 Total Size: 1.13 GB Tracklist: 1. Debussy: String Quartet in G Minor, Op. 10, L. 85: I. Animé et très décidé (6:52) 2. Debussy: String Quartet in G Minor, Op. 10, L. 85: II. Assez vif et bien rythmé (4:00) 3. Debussy: String Quartet in G Minor, Op. 10, L. 85: III. Andantino, doucement expressif (7:52) 4. Debussy: String Quartet in G Minor, Op. 10, L. 85: IV. Très modéré - Très mouvementé (8:06) 5. Szymanowski: String Quartet No. 1 in C Major, Op. 37: I. Lento assai - Allegro moderato (7:54) 6. Szymanowski: String Quartet No. 1 in C Major, Op. 37: II. Andantino semplice. In modo d’una canzone (6:18) 7. Szymanowski: String Quartet No. 1 in C Major, Op. 37: III. Vivace - Scherzando alla burlesca. Vivace ma non troppo (4:22) 8. Szymanowski: String Quartet No. 2, Op. 56: I. Moderato (8:23) 9. Szymanowski: String Quartet No. 2, Op. 56: II. Vivace scherzando (4:39) 10. Szymanowski: String Quartet No. 2, Op. 56: III. Lento (6:31) 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; its 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