The second installment of Bartok’s riveting string quartets by the Jerusalem Quartet
Bela Bartok, String Quartets Nos. 1, 3, and 5
Harmonia Mundi
Released: September 2020
Catalog Num: HMM902240
From the opening funeral dirge of the First Quartet to the incandescent frenzy that concludes the Fifth, this disc offers a genuine panorama of the Bartókian universe. A world unto itself, constantly stamped with the heritage of Hungarian folklore so dear to the composer: two years after a first volume devoted to the even-numbered works (nos. 2, 4, and 6), the musicians of the Jerusalem Quartet expertly complete their recording of a key cycle of modern chamber music, a musical saga drawn on the scale of a lifetime!