String Quartet No. 10 (Villa-Lobos)

String Quartet No. 10 is one of a series of seventeen works in the genre by the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos, and was written in 1946. A performance lasts approximately 23 minutes.
History.
Villa-Lobos composed his Tenth Quartet in Rio de Janeiro in 1946. It was first performed by the Quarteto de São Paulo in Paris on 12 February 1950. The score is dedicated to Mindinha (Arminda Neves d'Almeida), the composer's companion for the last 23 years of his life.
Analysis.
The quartet consists of four movements:
 The formal structure of the first movement is derived from the classical sonata-allegro from, and has three subjects.
Cyclic procedures are used to promote unity across the four movements. A violin arpeggio flourish from the end of the fourth bar of the first movement, for example, is developed extensively in the Adagio, and the prominent repeated chords of the first movement return in the scherzo and, in slower rhythmic values, in portions of the finale.
Discography.
Chronological, by date of recording.