Favourite Encores for string quartet

CDH55002
(Originally issued on CDH88038)

Recording details: October 1988
Unknown, Unknown
Produced by John H West
Engineered by Antony Howell
Release date: May 1999
Total duration: 73 minutes 22 seconds

'This is quite magnificent' (CDReview, USA)

'How many string quartets play encores? Those that don't should have a listen to the Delmé Quartet's highly entertaining selection. The playing is excellent.' (Classic CD)

Favourite Encores for string quartet

Delmé Quartet

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		String Quartet in F major Roman Hoffstetter (1742-1815) & Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
1		Movement: Andante 'Haydn Serenade' [4'09]
		String Quartet in C major 'The Bird' Op 33 No 3 Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) English Français Deutsch
2		Movement 4: Rondo: Presto [2'43]
3		Crisantemi [5'28] Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)
4		Sally in our alley for string quartet [3'32] Frank Bridge (1879-1941)
5		Cherry Ripe for string quartet [3'24] Frank Bridge (1879-1941)
		String Quartet No 1 in D major Op 11 Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
6		Movement: Andante cantabile [7'03]
		String Quartet in A minor Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962)
7		Movement: Scherzo [6'44]
		String Quartet No 2 in D major Alexander Borodin (1833-1887)
8		Movement: Nocturne [8'08]
9		Meditation on an old Czech hymn 'St Wenceslas' Op 35a [6'08] Josef Suk (1874-1935)
10		Serenade 'Italian' [7'23] Hugo Wolf (1860-1903)
11		Night [2'51] Ernest Bloch (1880-1959) English Français Deutsch
		String Quartet in E flat major Op 12 Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
12		Movement 2: Canzonetta: Allegretto [4'27]
13		Waltz in A major Op 54 No 1 [3'43] Antonín Dvorák (1841-1904)
14		Waltz in D flat minor Op 54 No 4 [3'10] Antonín Dvorák (1841-1904)
		String Quintet in C major G310 Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805) English Français Deutsch
15		Movement 4: Rondeau: Allegro con moto [4'29]