Martinu - Complete String Quartets | Supraphon SU39172

Martinu - Complete String Quartets

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Label: Supraphon

Cat No: SU39172

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 3

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 23rd July 2007

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This complete collection of Bohuslav Martinů’s seven string quartets was recorded in the years 1979–1983, at the peak of the Panocha Quartet’s career. Martinů’s quartets were written over the entire span of his life, and each of them is a world unto itself.
 
The Impressionistic “French” Quartet, and the Quartet No. 4 (Paris, 1937) were written in the period between the World Wars. Martinů’s unique compositional identity appears for the first time, however, in the Quartet No. 2 (1925).
 
The Quartet No. 5 and Janáček’s Intimate Letters have much in common, including their romantic dimension and their passion born of an inner pressure. 
 
After the Quartet No. 6 (1946), which in a way parallels Dvořák’s work during his soujourn in America, Martinů brings his quartet work to a climax with his seventh piece, the Concerto da camera, a miniature full of inner contentment, as if the composer had found time for inner contemplation and meditation in this favourite chamber composition. 
 
Panocha Quartet:
Jiří Panocha – 1st violin, Pavel Zejfart – 2nd violin, Miroslav Sehnoutka – viola, Jaroslav Kulhan – cello

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