2014 New Classical Releases Index - 2

Music: String Quartet No. 1, Op. 21: II. Molto vivace
Composer: Paul Ben-Haim
Artist: Carmel Quartet
Album: Paul Ben-Haim: Chamber Music for Strings
Label: Toccata Classics TOCC 0214

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The Israeli composer Paul Ben-Haim (1897–1974) was born Paul Frankenburger and made his early career in his native Munich. Reading the danger signs earlier than most, he emigrated to Palestine in 1933 and soon became one of the leading figures in the musical culture of the emerging Jewish state. His music mirrors this change of circumstance: the early String Quintet (1919) taps a vein of rich late Romanticism influenced by Richard Strauss, but the rhapsodic First String Quartet (1937) is coloured by middle-Eastern melisma and folk-rhythms.

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Paul Ben-Haim: String Quartet No. 1, Op. 21: II. Molto vivace

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