Raphael Quartet – Alto CD https://altocd.com Classical Music and Nostalgia CDs Fri, 03 Oct 2025 00:31:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Edvard Grieg: String Quartets 1 & 2 https://altocd.com/product/alc1712/ Fri, 03 Oct 2025 00:31:22 +0000 https://altocd.com/?post_type=product&p=53714 Jet Röling, piano Raphael Quartet <strong>Catalogue Number:</strong> ALC 1712 <strong>Number of Discs:</strong> 1 CD <strong>Date/Runtime:</strong> 78:29 <strong>Barcode:</strong> 5055354417122]]> String Quartet No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 27

  1. I. Un poco Andante — Allegro molto ed agitato
  2. II. Romanze. Andantino — Allegro agitato
  3. III. Intermezzo. Allegro molto marcato — Più vivo e scherzando
  4. IV. Finale. Lento — Presto al Saltarello
  1. Fugue in F Minor
  2. Andante con moto in C Minor for Piano Trio

String Quartet No. 2 in F Major, EG 117 (Completed by Julius Röntgen)

  1. I. Sostenuto – Allegro vivace e grazioso
  2. II. Allegro scherzando
  3. III. Adagio
  4. IV. Allegro giocoso

Alto returns to international availability, the Raphael Quartet’s acclaimed 1993 recordings of Edvard Grieg’s String Quartets 1 & 2, the Allegro con fuoco from the Fugue in F minor for string quartet, and the Andante con moto in C minor for piano trio with pianist Jet Röling.

The Raphael String Quartet was known far beyond their native Holland. Founded in the early 1980s, they came to prominence winning four distinctions at the European Broadcasting Union String Quartet Festival in 1983. The recipients of a number of important commissions, they have recorded extensively including works by Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert, Bruckner, Grieg, Janáček and Shostakovich. 

These sumptuous chamber music recordings have been newly remastered and restored by engineer Paul Arden-Taylor. 

“The Raphael Quartet give us … plenty of spirit, and the recorded sound is excellent.” —Penguin Guide, 3 Stars 

]]> Crisantemi: Italian String Quartets Puccini – Cherubini – Verdi https://altocd.com/product/crisantemi-italian-string-quartets-puccini-cherubini-verdi/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 23:46:18 +0000 https://amuletts.com/altocd/?post_type=product&p=52426 Raphael Quartet & Britten Quartet

Catalogue Number:  ALC 1427
Number of Discs: 1
Date/Runtime:DDD, 1986/90 Time 78:46
Barcode: 5055354414275

]]> “an essential disc for Puccini-fanciers … these chips off the workbench fascinatingly illuminate what we know of the opera composer … recorded sound is very vivid and immediate for the excellent Raphael Quartet.” … “Among the six quartet pieces I crisantemi is justly well known a charming piece that provided material for Manon Lescaut. The second of the three Minuets similarly gave Puccini the idea for the brilliant opening of that opera … Scherzo in A minor of the same year is delightful, presumably intended as another movement for the quartet” (Gramophone)

Puccini: Crisantemi; 3 Minuets; Scherzo; Quartet Movement [24:02]
1. Crisantemi (Andante mesto) 6:00
2. Minuetto I (Moderato) 3:39
3. Minuetto II (Allegretto) 2:38
4. Minuetto III (Assai mosso) 2:50
5. Scherzo in A minor (Allegro vivo) 0:58
6. Allegro moderato (Quartet in D major) 7:55
 
Cherubini: String Quartet No.1 in Eb major** [33:06]
7. I. Adagio – Allegro agitato 12:24
8. II. Larghetto sans lenteur 9:08
9. III. Scherzo. Allegretto moderato 6:53
10. IV. Finale. Allegro assai 4:40
 
Verdi: String Quartet in E minor** [21:24]
11. I. Allegro 7:09
12. II. Andantino 7:01
13. III. Prestissimo 3:15
14. IV. Scherzo Fuga. Allegro assai mosso 3:59
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