Leoš Janáček (1854-1928) - String Quartet No. 1, inspired by Tolstoy´s Kreutzer Sonata 18:44
1. Adagio. Con moto 4:17
2. Con moto 4:32
3. Con moto. Vivo. Andante 4:15
4. Con moto. Adagio. Maestoso 5:31
5. Pavel Haas (1899-1944) - String Quartet C sharp minor No. 1, Op. 3 13:39
Pavel Haas - String Quartet No. 3, Op. 15 22:01
6. Allegro moderato 6:45
7. Lento ma na non troppo e poco rubato 6:05
8. Thema con variazioni e fuga. Con moto 9:01
The Pavel Haas Quartet's debut album (Janáček, Haas - String Quartets, SU38772131) was greeted with widespread enthusiasm, winning a number of awards for the ensemble (BBC Music Magazine Award 2007, Newcomer of the Year; Classic FM Gramophone Awards 2007,
Chamber Award). This September, the quartet became part of the BBC New Generation Artists program. This new album completes their recordings of the Janáček and Haas quartets, bringing practically unknown works by this noteworthy 20th century composer to the attention of music lovers today. Janáček's first quartet, with its intimacy and mounting eroticism, is uunusually close to the hearts of the young ensemble. Written in only nine days (!), this four-movement composition is Janáček's most concise and also most tragic musical drama. Janáček's student Pavel Haas wrote his first string quartet, a ten minute sonata allegro movement in fantasia style, in 1920 while still a student at Brno Conservatory, and the Haas Quartet's rendition is remarkably expressive. Haas wrote his third quartet in 1938 at the peak of his creative life. The piece is marked by the drama and tragedy of the era's rapidly burgeoning Nazi movement: in 1941 Haas would divorce his wife to save his family, in 1941 he was arrested and deported to the Jewish ghetto
in Terezín, and in 1944 he was sent to Auschwitz.
(Supraphon 2007)
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