"With playing both sensitive and lively, the Allegri Quartet brings these
melodious works back to life at last, and the sound is sweet-toned, very clear,
with amazing realism in their string timbres. A valuable discovery."
HiFi
News & Record Review
"...a particularly striking second-movement Allegretto which is
worthy of the young Mozart. The vivacious finale of the Second Quartet...
is comparable with Haydn." Penguin Guide to Compact Discs
Sirmen (1745-1818) was renowned
in her day as a virtuoso violinist (a pupil of Tartini), a fine soprano and
excellent composer. Starting as an inmate of a Venetian orphanage specialising
in musical education, she toured Europe as both singer and violinist to great
acclaim, and had her music published in both Paris and London. She is one of
the earliest known female musicians to succeed without the social and financial
advantages of being a member of the nobility, and without the connections consequent
on coming from a family headed by a composer.
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Sirmen |
String
Quartet No.4 in B flat major |
9:45 |
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1 |
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7:55 |
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2 |
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1:48 |
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String
Quartet No.3 in G minor |
11:24 |
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3 |
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6:22 |
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4 |
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Allegro—
Sostenuto—Allegro— Sostenuto |
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String
Quartet No.6 in E major |
9:59 |
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5 |
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6:17 |
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6 |
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Con
brio—Minuetto—Con brio |
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3:40 |
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String
Quartet No1 in E flat major |
12:17 |
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7 |
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Andante
ma con un poco di moto |
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6:12 |
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8 |
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6:02 |
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String
Quartet No 5 in F minor |
12:30 |
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9 |
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Larghetto—Allegro—Larghetto |
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8:10 |
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10 |
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4:18 |
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String
Quartet No.2 in B flat major |
12:09 |
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11 |
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7:05 |
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12 |
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5:01 |
TT:
68:25 |