Eusebius Quartet - Elgar & Fauré- String Quartets (2025) [Official Digital Download 24/192]

The newest release from SOMM Recordings is an unusual but exciting pairing of two string quartets by British and French contemporaries Sir Edward Elgar (1857–1934) and Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924). Also included is a collection of shorter gems transcribed for string quartet by the British composer, arranger, and pianist Iain Farrington. These comprise Elgar’s Carissima (originally composed for small orchestra) and selections from Fauré’s Piano Preludes: Nos. 4, 8, and 9, this last described by Aaron Copland as being “so absolutely simple that we can never hope to understand how it can contain such great emotional power.”

This recording features the Eusebius Quartet, formed in 2016 out of a passion for the extraordinary music written for this instrumentation, and praised as “excellent” by The Sunday Times. Their debut CD for SOMM of the Korngold Piano Quintet & Quartet (SOMMCD 0642) received critical acclaim: “Wit and clarity abound in the Quartet’s Viennese-sounding performances,” The Strad; “The musicians seem to feel the music just as it is, complex on the surface, but direct and straight from the heart,” BBC Music Magazine.

TRACKLIST

1. Eusebius Quartet - String Quartet in E Minor, Op. 83: I. Allegro moderato
2. Eusebius Quartet - String Quartet in E Minor, Op. 83: II. Piacevole
3. Eusebius Quartet - String Quartet in E Minor, Op. 83: III. Allegro molto
4. Eusebius Quartet - Carissima (Arr. for String Quartet by Iain Farrington)
5. Eusebius Quartet - String Quartet in E Minor, Op. 121: I. Allegro moderato
6. Eusebius Quartet - String Quartet in E Minor, Op. 121: II. Andante
7. Eusebius Quartet - String Quartet in E Minor, Op. 121: III. Allegro
8. Eusebius Quartet - 9 Préludes, Op. 103: No. 4, Allegretto moderato (Arr. for String Quartet by Iain Farrington)
9. Eusebius Quartet - 9 Préludes, Op. 103: No. 8, Allegro (Arr. for String Quartet by Iain Farrington)
10. Eusebius Quartet - 9 Préludes, Op. 103: No. 9, Adagio (Arr. for String Quartet by Iain Farrington)



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