Eugène d'Albert

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Eugène d'Albert was born in Glasgow in 1864.

He gave us a symphony, two piano concertos and one for cello. And what mainly concern us here are his two string quartets:

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String quartet no. 1, in A minor, opus 7 (1887). There are four movements:

I. Leidenschaftlich bewegt
II. Langsam, mit Ausdruck
III. Mäßiger bewegt
IV. In mäßiger, ruhiger Bewegung (Thema mit Variationen)

The work was performed by the Sarastro quartet: 



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String quartet no. 2, in E flat major, opus 11 (1893). There are four movements:

I. Andante con moto - Animato - Tranquillo - Tempo I
II. Allegro vivace
III. Adagio ma non troppo e con molto espressione
IV. Allegro

Again the work was performed by the Sarastro Quartet:



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[JimL]

There were actually 3 piano concertos. The earliest one (in A minor) was discovered a few years back in the Library of Congress. It was given the same opus number as the B minor Concerto (numbered as the 1st, Op. 2), before the composer began counting his opera from scratch, which is why the MS in the LoC was misidentified for over a century. This is the work premiered in Vienna, when d'Albert was 17 years old. Hans Richter was on the podium. I don't know if there are any plans to record it, but I'm hoping Hyperion will do the same as they did for Moszkowski's Op. 3.