Janacek/Martinu:quartets

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Janacek/Martinu:QuartetsOpis:Product Description This new recording by the Doric String Quartet pays homage to the Czech chamber music of the 1920s, featuring string quartets by Janá?ek and Martin?. Exclusive on Chandos, The Doric String Quartet is now established as one of the finest young ensembles in the world. The chamber music output of Janá?ek is relatively small but often programmatic. As acknowledged by the composer, the two string quartets are a vehicle for his deepest feelings. The mounting tension of String Quartet No. 1, which culminates in a less anguished last movement, emphasises the heightened feelings of love, passion, and remorse with which he was concerned at the time of its writing. As he summed it up, the work depicts the 'miserable woman, suffering, beaten, beaten to death' from Tolstoy's Kreutzer Sonata. Titled Intimate Letters, the Second Quartet the last work Janá?ek completed - fulfils an autobiographical function, being a no less ardent and personal composition. The Third String Quartet by Martin? reflects the influences of his teacher Roussel as well as the night-life ragtime and jazz world of Paris in which it was written, in 1929. By far the shortest of his seven mature quartets, it yet gives a greater degree of independence to each of the four instruments, allowing for some striking harmonic clashes and colourful scoring. Review The remarkable Chandos discs that the Doric String Quartet have already made of music by Schumann, Haydn and Erich Korngold have demonstrated not only an inquiring mind as regards choice of repertoire but also a penetrating approach to performance and a compelling way of capturing and distilling the music s essence. Here the Doric combines the two string quartets by Janácek the Kreutzer Sonata of 1923 and Intimate Letters of 1928 with the Third Quartet that Martin composed in 1929. In the two Janácek quartets the interpretations get right into the music's sinew, highlighting those flexible rhythms of speech that are such an original and individual facet of Janácek's manner of writing and delving deep into the emotions that the music harbours. Tolstoy's novella The Kreutzer Sonata , published in 1889, has at its centre an episode in which a young wife, trapped in a cruel and loveless marriage, finds solace in playing the piano for a violinist in Beethoven's "Kreutzer Sonata the A Major Sonata Op 47. Janácek confided to Kamila Stösslová, the young married woman with whom he himself was deeply in love, that in writing the quartet he was imagining a poor woman, tormented and run down, just like the one the Russian writer Tolstoy describes in his Kreutzer Sonata . *****` --Telegraph, 14/03/15 These are virtuoso performances in every sense. Gramophone,May'15 /// The Doric's (recording) of the first Quartet is magnificent. Their profound understanding of the work probes its dramatic roots- many deriving from the Cunning little vixen and they are not afraid to confront the harshness of some of the instrumentation, notably in the second and third movements. Performance ****(*) Recording ***** --BBC Music Magazine, July'15 Leo Janácek s String Quartet No.1 (1923) was inspired by Tolstoy's novella The Kreutzer Sonata(censored on its 1889 publication by the Russian authorities), which presents a dominated then adulterous married woman and her murder by the husband. It is also an analysis of human love, seen from the female side; something that Janácek sympathised with. And from the opening bars of his piece it's clear that the members of the Doric Quartet are presenting a drama living and breathing every second of it vividly essayed with many extreme contrasts. It grips the senses. Janá ek s String Quartet No.2 (1928, the year of the composer s death) is entitled 'Intimate Letters'. It too is passionate and volatile, with much that touches the heart and feeds the imagination. The Doric members once again are totally inside this inimitable score and offer an irresistible listening experience. So too with Bohuslav Martinu(1890-1959), Janacek's fellow-Czech and a wonderful composer whose String Quartet No.3 (1929) covers a lot of ground in its three short movements: invention full of personality, energy and beauty, and some healthy dalliance with the then-modern trends in music. The Doric's terrific feats are superbly recorded and annotated with enlightenment. ***** --Sinfini Music,30 April 2015Autor:Doric String QuartetNośnik:Audio CDPłyt:Język: German: Original LanguageData wydania: 2015-01-01Waga: 0.18 gramWysokość: 0.6 cmSzerokość: 5 cmDługość: 5.6 cmStreichquartetteUWAGA: Kupując produkt na tej aukcji zgadzasz się na wydłużony termin realizacji wysyłki (10-14 dni roboczych). Podany towar pochodzi z zagranicznego magazynu, stąd wydłużony czas realizacji który podany jest obok.