Release Date: 01 January 2015
Label: Chandos
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 095115184820
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: Janacek/Martinu
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.
Tracklisting
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Halle Choir; John Storgards
Jonathan Aasgaard; Sinfonia of London; John Wilson
Sara Dowling; Aquarelle Guitar Quartet
Dame Sarah Connolly; Joseph Middleton
James Ehnes; BBC Philharmonic; Juanjo Mena
Wilson/Rte Orch/Sinfonia Ldn
Watkins:Bbc So:Gardner
Various
Doric String Quartet
Doric String Quartet
Doric String Quartet
Doric String Quartet
Doric String Quartet
