BELA BARTOK (1881-1945) - STRING QUARTET No. 3, Sz 85 (1927) STRING QUARTET No. 4, Sz 91 (1928)

The PÁRKÁNYI (formerly ORLANDO) QUARTET, which worked with Sándor Végh in Budapest, waited thirty years before giving us its vision of this summit of 20th-century quartet literature, the central diptych of the six String Quartets by the composer of The Miraculous Mandarin. It is coupled, as a matter of interest, with the last Quartet, also inspired by the land, of an overly-neglected Hungarian and childhood friend of Bartók: the ethnologist and dramatist Leo Weiner.

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