String Quartet #06
Appleby Catalogue W number:
W399
The sixth String Quartet was written in Rio in 1938, and dedicated to Orlando Frederico.
Movements:
- Poco animato
- Allegretto
- Andante quasi adagio
- Allegro vivace
Listen to the beautiful 3rd movement, played by the String Quartet of Buenos Aires.
Year Composed:
Category:
Chamber Music
Instrumentation:
String Quartet
Scores:
Associated Music Publishers, New York
Villa-Lobos, Heitor. 1948. String quartet no. 6. New York: Associated Music Publishers.
Recordings:
- Complete String Quartets (Cuarteto Latinoamericano)
- String Quartets #04, 06 & 14 (Marco Polo)
- String Quartets #04, 05, 06 (Bessler-Reis)
- Brazilian String Quartet: String Quartets Nos. 1, 6 & 17
- Quadro Brasil (Quarteto Radamés)
- The Hollywood String Quartet: Villa-Lobos, Ravel, Debussy, Turina, Creston (Testament)
- Stuyvesant String Quartet perform Hindemith, Villa-Lobos, Porter (Parnassus)
- Gnatalli, Guerra Peixe, Bochino, Villa-Lobos (Quarteto Brasileiro da UFRJ)
- Bachianas Brasileiras, Guitar Concerto, etc (EMI)
- Shostakovich, Villa-Lobos (Cuarteto Buenos Aires)
- Complete String Quartets (Quarteto Radamés Gnattali) - DVD/BluRay
Performances:
The premiere of this work was on November 30, 1943, in Rio de Janeiro, with the Quarteto Haydn.
There are eight records in the Villa-Lobos Concerts database as of May 2011.