String Quartet No.1 in D, Op.11
String Quartet No.2 in F, Op.22
Eugene Onegin Op.24 – Lensky’s Aria (arr. David Faber)

The Dudok Quartet Amsterdam embark on a traversal of the three string quartets of Tchaikovsky. This first volume contains Nos 1&2. No.1 has one of the most famous movements in chamber music, the beautiful Andante cantabile slow movement. The second quartet, though less popular, is a step forward for the composer. He said that it ‘was my best work, no other piece has poured forth from me so simply and easily. I wrote it in almost one sitting’. The album concludes with the much loved ‘Lensky’s Aria’ from Eugene Onegin in a new arrangement for string quartet by David Faber, cellist of the Dudok Quartet. The album concludes with the much loved ‘Lensky’s Aria’ from Eugene Onegin in a new arrangement for string quartet by David Faber, cellist of the Dudok Quartet.