Janacek - String Quartets Nos 1 & 2, etc | Meridian CDE84560

Janacek - String Quartets Nos 1 & 2, etc

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Label: Meridian

Cat No: CDE84560

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 1st November 2007

Contents

About

The Czech composer Leoš Janácek was born in 1854, one of fourteen children of an impoverished but musical schoolmaster in the Moravian village of Hukvaldy. A renowned teacher, folklorist and music theorist, he did not achieve substantial recognition as a composer until his sixties. His creative output was most fruitful in the last fifteen years of his life (Janácek died in 1928), and works from this time include his most celebrated operas, as well as his string quartets and violin sonata.

Winner of the Royal Philharmonic Society Award for Chamber Music in 2007, the Dante Quartet is known for the emotional intensity of its performances, and combines imaginative programming with a keen dedication to the core repertoire. The quartet was founded in 1995 on friendships made at the International Musicians Seminar at Prussia Cove, Cornwall, and chose the name of Dante to reflect the idea of a great and challenging journey.

Ferenc Rados was born in 1934 in Budapest, and taught piano and chamber music for many years at the Franz Liszt Academy. He is widely respected as both teacher and musician, and his collaboration with Krysia Osostowicz arose from their acquaintance at the International Musicians Seminar at Prussia Cove.

Dante Quartet:
Krysia Osostowicz - violin
Giles Francis - violin
Judith Busbridge - viola
Bernhard Gregor-Smith - Cello

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