Alois Hába Complete String Quartets - Hába Quartett (4CD)

CD 1
total time: 74:21
String Quartet No. 1, Op. 4 (1919) 34:17
[01] Allegro agitato 10:38
[02] Allegro con spirito 07:55
[03] Andante cantabile 07:52
[04] Allegro grazioso 07:42
String Quartet No. 6, Op. 70, Suite in Quarter-Tone System (1950) 08:30
[05] Allegro energico 02:19
[06] Moderato cantabile 03:53
[07] Allegro agitato 02:09
String Quartet No. 9, Op. 79 (1952) 08:56
[08] Allegro risoluto 02:59
[09] Moderato cantabile 03:32
[10] Allegro agitato 02:17
String Quartet No. 15, Op. 95 (1964) 05:34
[11] Allegretto leggiero 01:22
[12] Andante cantabile 00:32
[13] Allegro vivace 01:22
[14] Adagio molto 01:00
[15] Allegro risoluto 01:10
String Quartet No. 16, Op. 98 in Fifth-Tone System (1967) 12:21
[16] Calmo – Andante cantabile 02:21
[17] Con affezione – Allegro vivace 00:41
[18] Indeciso – Allegro moderato 01:39
[19] Duramente – Allegretto 00:46
[20] Sognando – Vivacissimo 01:04
[21] Con concentrazione – Andante cantabile 03:39
[22] Fermamente – Allegro energico 00:54
[23] Allegramente – Allegretto 01:07
Tagebuchnotizen (Diary Entries), Op. 101 (1970) 04:36
for string quartet and speaker, on texts by Renáta Pandulová
[24] Andante 00:28
[25] Allegretto 00:52
[26] Allegro agitato 00:21
[27] Allegro 00:29
[28] Allegretto 00:27
[29] Moderato 00:39
[30] Andante 00:26
[31] Allegro energico 00:15
[32] Andante 00:37
Hába Quartett
Sha Katsouris, violin (1st violin: String Quartets Nos. 1 / 15 / Tagebuchnotizen)
Hovhannes Mokatsian, violin (1st violin: String Quartets Nos. 6 / 9 / 16)
Peter Zelienka, viola
Arnold Ilg, violoncello
Sigune von Osten speaker (Tagebuchnotizen)

CD 2
total time: 71:28
String Quartet No. 7, Op. 73 (1950 / 1951) 13:48
[01] Allegro risoluto 04:09
[02] Andante cantabile 05:04
[03] Allegro agitato 04:25
String Quartet No. 8, Op. 76 (1951) 10:04
[04] Allegro risoluto 03:10
[05] Allegretto cantabile e grazioso 03:05
[06] Allegro agitato e risoluto 03:42
[07] String Quartet No. 2, Op. 7 in Quarter-Tone System (1920) 16:06
Allegro non troppo, risoluto – Largo – Allegro agitato
String Quartet No. 13, Op. 92 (1961) 11:35
[08] Allegro energico 02:25
[09] Andante cantabile 05:02
[10] Allegro agitato 04:00
String Quartet No. 3, Op. 12 in Quarter-Tone System (1922) 19:41
[11] Andante 13:49
[12] Allegro scherzando 05:51
Hába Quartett
Sha Katsouris, violin (1st violin: String Quartets Nos. 7 / 13 / 3)
Hovhannes Mokatsian, violin (1st violin: String Quartets Nos. 8 / 2)
Peter Zelienka, viola
Arnold Ilg, violoncello

CD 3
total time: 68:53
String Quartet No. 14, Op. 94 in Quarter-Tone System (1963) 09:08
[01] Allegro energico 01:47
[02] Allegro agitato 01:02
[03] Andante leggiero 01:49
[04] Allegretto scherzando 01:30
[05] Andante cantabile 01:44
[06] Allegro risoluto 01:08
Six Compositions for String Quartet, Op. 37 in Sixth-Tone System (1928) 10:56
Adapted for string quartet by Johannes Kotschy
[07] Allegro moderato 01:44
[08] Allegro con moto 01:03
[09] Adagio 03:02
[10] Allegro scherzando 01:14
[11] Adagio 02:33
[12] Allegro con moto 01:14
String Quartet No. 10, Op. 80 in Sixth-Tone System (1952) 20:17
[13] Allegro energico 06:39
[14] Andante cantabile 06:24
[15] Allegro energico 07:13
String Quartet No. 11, Op. 87 in Sixth-Tone System (1958) 12:36
[16] Allegro energico 02:47
[17] Andante misterioso 05:49
[18] Allegro agitato 03:47
String Quartet No. 12, Op. 90 in Quarter-Tone System (1959 / 1960) 15:39
[19] Allegro energico 03:57
[20] Andante cantabile 05:57
[21] Allegro risoluto 05:43
Hába Quartett
Sha Katsouris, violin (1st violin: Six Compositions / String Quartet No. 11)
Hovhannes Mokatsian, violin (1st violin: String Quartets Nos. 14 / 10 / 12)
Peter Zelienka, viola
Arnold Ilg, violoncello

CD 4
total time: 66:53
String Quartet No. 4, Op. 14 in Quarter-Tone System (1922) 37:18
[01] Allegro energico – Allegro con spirito 14:38
[02] Adagio – Andante – Allegro moderato – Andante 22:35
String Quartet No. 5, Op. 15 in Sixth-Tone System (1923) 29:27
[03] Allegro 09:23
[04] Andante 13:51
[05] Presto 06:11
Hába Quartett
Sha Katsouris, violin (1st violin: String Quartet No. 4)
Hovhannes Mokatsian, violin (1st violin: String Quartet No. 5)
Peter Zelienka, viola
Arnold Ilg, violoncello