String Quartet No. 13 (Villa-Lobos)

String Quartet No. 13 is one of a series of seventeen works in the medium by the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos, and was written in 1951. A performance of it lasts approximately twenty minutes.
History.
According to the catalog published by the Museu Villa-Lobos, the Thirteenth Quartet was composed in New York, but details of the occasion of the first performance are unknown Another source says it was composed in Rio de Janeiro and first performed in 1953. Both sources agree the year of composition was 1951 and that the score is dedicated to the Quarteto Municipal de São Paulo.
Analysis.
Like most of Villa-Lobos's works in the medium, the quartet consists of four movements:
All four movements of this quartet are in ternary, ABA form. In the first movement, the return of the A section is restricted to its first half, the remainder being replaced with a ten-bar coda.
The second movement is a scherzo, concluding with a coda made from material taken from the central, B section.
The third, slow movement exhibits subtle features of modinha rhythms in 6/4 time. The main theme of this movement has been criticised as "exceptionally shapeless".
The finale is very similar to the opening movement, and uses as its main theme a subject connected by its intervallic structure to that of the fugato that opens the first movement. Eero Tarasti finds this theme "surprisingly feeble".
Discography.
Chronological, in order of dates of recording.