Labyrinth: Chamber Works by Petr Eben
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Label: Supraphon
Cat No: SU42322
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 18th August 2017
Contents
Artists
Martinu QuartetKarel Kosarek (piano)
Works
Piano QuintetPiano Trio
String Quartet 'Labyrinth of the World and Paradise of the Heart'
Artists
Martinu QuartetKarel Kosarek (piano)
About
Eben’s “programme” is most evident in the String Quartet (1981), written to commission for the Smetana Quartet and inspired by the allegorical work The Labyrinth of the World and the Paradise of the Heart by the famous 17th-century Czech philosopher, educator and theologian Jan Amos Komenský, in whom he saw a model for viewing this world: “not to be attached to it, to retain a critical view and distance, yet to dedicate one’s strengths with the aim to make it better and attain its redemption”.
Both the Piano Quintet (1992) and the Piano Trio (1986) clearly reveal their creator – Eben the superlative pianist. In them, the composer did not strive to make the instruments chime, opting instead for juxtaposing the sounds of the piano and the strings. The renowned Martinů Quartet (whose releases include the highly acclaimed CD of Sergey Taneyev’s complete quintets, SU41762) and the pianist Karel Košárek have undertaken Eben’s quintet’s premiere recording and the quartet’s first modern-time recording since that made by the legendary Smetana Quartet.
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