Béla Bartók - String Quartet No. 4, I-II

String Quartet No. 4 in C major, Sz. 91, BB 95 (1928) I. Allegro II. Prestissimo, con sordino III. Non troppo lento IV. Allegretto pizzicato V. Allegro molto Novák Quartet Bartók’s String Quartet No. 4 was written in the summer of 1928 and premiered that fall by the Kolisch Quartet, led by Arnold Schoenberg’s brother-in-law, Rudolf Kolisch. The work represents both an intensification and relaxation of elements present in Bartók’s previous quartet, completed a year before the fourth. While the radically d