Performers: The Edinburgh Quartet
Label: Meridian Records
Catalogue Number: CDE84530/CDE84531
Year: 2007

Recording: Hans Gal
Double CD set
Volumes 1 and 2 in the series
The Complete String Quartets

• Quartet No 1
• Quartet No 4
• Improvisation, Variations and Finale
• Quartet No 2
• Quartet No 3
• 5 Intermezzi

** Disc One:

Hans Gal Quartet No 1 in F minor Op 16

• Moderato, ma con passione <listen>
• Molto vivace <listen>
• Adagio <listen>
• Allegro energico, un poco sostenuto <listen>

Hans Gal Quartet No 4 in B flat major Op 99

• Legend. Adagio - Allegro <listen>
• Burlesque. Vivace <listen>
• Elegy. Lento <listen>
• Capriccio Fugato. Allegro con spiritu <listen>

Hans Gal Improvisation, Variations and Finale on a Theme by Mozart Op 60b

• Improvisation <listen>
• Theme <listen>
• Variation 1 <listen>
• Variation 2 <listen>
• Variation 3 <listen>
• Variation 4 <listen>
• Variation 5 <listen>
• Variation 6 <listen>
• Variation 7 <listen>
• Finale <listen>

** Disc Two:

Hans Gal Quartet No 2 in A minor Op 35 (1929)

• Preludio Un poco agitato <listen>
• Toccata Vivace ma non troppo presto <listen>
• Canzone - Andante
• Intermezzo cappriccioso - Presto
• Rondo Allegretto commodo

Hans Gal Quartet No 3 in B minor Op 95 (1969)

• Energico Allegro molto moderato
• Scherzando Grazioso e leggiero
• Cantabile - Adagio
• Con umore - Allegretto <listen>

Hans Gal 5 Intermezzi Op 10 (1914)

• Allegro con moto <listen>
• Andantino <listen>
• Presto
• Allegro commodo <listen>
• Allegretto con grazia

The Edinburgh Quartet
Charles Mutter | Philip Burrin | Michael Beeston | Mark Bailey