New Zealand String Quartet: String Quartets 1 & 2 - COMPACT DISCS

New Zealand String Quartet: String Quartets 1 & 2 - COMPACT DISCS

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String Quartets 1 & 2

Artist:

New Zealand String Quartet

Label:

Naxos

Product Type:

COMPACT DISCS

UPC:

747313420971

Genre:

Classical Artists

Release Date:

2021-02-12

Number of Discs:

1

Janácek's final decade saw an almost unprecedented creative renewal during which he wrote some of his greatest works. Among them were his chamber music masterpieces, the two String Quartets. The first was inspired by Tolstoy's novella The Kreutzer Sonata, a torrid tale of adultery and murder to which Janácek responded with music of increasingly frenzied passion. The second was subtitled Intimate Letters, a freely evolving work full of yearning and amorous defiance. Originally cast for four violins, the two youthful Sonnets date from 1875 and balance the archaisms of the first with the lyricism of the second.

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