Release Date: 05 August 2022
Label: Nimbus Records - Cd / Nimbus Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 710357642227
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: Bed?ich Smetana & Antonín Dvo?ák
Description
Loss of hearing forced Smetana to leave his position at the Provincial Theatre and withdraw from social life and his musical career. In 1876 he moved to his daughter Zofie´s house in Jabkenice. Here he was able to enjoy the calm and quite needed so that he could focus on his compositions. The change in his circumstances made him reflect on his life and he captured his feelings in his String Quartet No. 1 in E-minor From My Life. Smetana described the work as “intimate and private music for four instruments talking about my life”. However, the opposite was true of this epic score of programme music. Until this time the techniques used by Smetana in this quartet had only been used by composers writing for symphony orchestra. He used symphonic techniques with brilliant effect for chamber music.
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FELTSMAN
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AUGUSTA READ THOMAS
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READ THOMAS
RACHMANINOFF
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