Weinberg: String Quartets Nos. 1, 7 & 11, Vol. 2

For this the second volume in their series of Weinberg’s string quartets, the Arcadia Quartet again presents three quartets from contrasting periods in the stylistic development of the composer. The first quartet of the self-taught teenager, written in 1937, in what Weinberg later described as his ‘neoimpressionist’ style, was heavily revised later in his life, and eventually re-published as Op. 141, in 1985. (Chandos)