String Quartet No. 11 (Villa-Lobos)

String Quartet No. 11 is the one of a series of seventeen works in the medium by the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos, and was written in 1947. A performance lasts approximately 27 minutes.
History.
Villa-Lobos composed his Eleventh Quartet in Rio de Janeiro in 1947. It was first performed by the Quarteto Iacovino in Rio de Janeiro in 1953. 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 the traditional four movements:
Although it follows the Tenth Quartet by only a year, the Eleventh represents a distinct stylistic leap over its immediate predecessor. It is decidedly less nationalistic than the earlier quartets, and is seen as the emergence of a more international style characteristic of the composer's later quartets, which finds its fullest expression in the String Quartet No. 17.
The first movement is dominated by a variety of triplet rhythms.
Discography.
Chronological, by date of recording.