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Background: Arcanto Qt perform three French String Quartets, all by composers who wrote little chamber music. Debussy and Ravel composed their only string quartet at the start of their careers, whereas Dutilleux wrote Ainsi la nuit shortly before his 60th birthday.

Debussy’s quartet, dedicated to the Ysaÿe Qt, is his only work to possess an opus number. Written in 1892-3, it comprises the standard four movements and adopts sonata form in the two outer movements.

The String Quartet of Ravel was composed in 1902-03 and premiered by the Heyman Qt on 5 March 1904. It possesses undeniable signs of kinship with the Debussy work: it conforms to the cyclic principle, and begins and ends with a sonata form movement; its scherzo is similarly characterised by crackling pizzicatos which stylise the sound of the guitar and give the movement a Spanish colour; as with Debussy, the strings play with mutes in the first and last sections of the slow movement.

The works of Dutilleux are rare and matured at length. Commissioned by the Serge Koussevitzky Foundation, Ainsi la nuit occupied the composer from 1971 to 1976. Dedicated ‘to the memory of Ernest Sussman [an American art-lover and friend of the composer] and in homage to Olga Koussevitzky’, it was premièred by the Parrenin Qt at the Théâtre de l’Est Parisien on 6 January 1977.

CATALOGUE NR: HMC902067
RECORD LABEL: Harmonia Mundi
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 12.95
RELEASE DATE: 23-Aug-2010

COMPOSER: Claude Debussy  (other composers in brackets after works)
TITLE: String Quartets
TRACKS: String Quartet in G minor op.10 (Debussy). Ainsi la nuit (Dutilleux). String Quartet in F major (Ravel).
ARTISTS: Arcanto Qt      

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