Tag: Zemlinsky Quartet

Title: Zemlinsky Quartet – Antonin Dvorak: String Quartet No.9 Op.34, String Quartet No.13 Op.106 (2012)
Genre: Classical
Format: MCH SACD ISO

Two scores that frame the period when the composer of the famous ‘American’ Quartet (No.12) was in his prime. Combining rhythmic invention, which ennobles the natural vigour of a reinvented folklore, bright colors shaded by the importance of the viola part, and a spontaneous melodic outpouring that contrasts with the absorbing melancholy of the slow movements (sublimation of the dumka), they give voice to an astonishing feeling of love and plenitude despite a number of personal dramas that the composer had undergone. It is as though their irresistible animation formed the image of a people that was going to become a nation once again in 1918.

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Title: Zemlinsky Quartet – Antonin Dvorak: String Quartet No.8 in E major Op.80 B 57, DROBNOSTI (Miniatures), CYPRESSES (2013)
Genre: Classical
Format: MCH SACD ISO

An anthology of chamber music by the author of the New World Symphony, which gathers lesser known pieces, mostly intimate, from a very ancient cultural background. They combine invention and also melancholy passages from a master of Czech chamber music. The Zemlinsky Quartet, like their elders, today the Pra áks, yesterday the Smetana Quartet, all from the City of Prague, sing ‘in their tree’.

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