Dvorak: String Quartets Nos. 12 & 13
Pavel Haas Quartet
Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 10th October 2011
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Building a Library, April 2011, First Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2010, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Recording of the Year
Throughout, their understanding of the musical argument is exemplary...at every stage the performers respond with both passion and a clear feeling for musical line...In truth, there are so many...
Dvorak: String Quartets Nos. 12 & 13
Pavel Haas Quartet
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Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 10th October 2011
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Building a Library, April 2011, First Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2010, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Recording of the Year
Throughout, their understanding of the musical argument is exemplary...at every stage the performers respond with both passion and a clear feeling for musical line...In truth, there are so many...
About
"I’m satisfied. It went quickly... " Antonín Dvořák jotted down at the end of the sketch for his String Quartet Op. 96. The work, one of the most beautiful quartet pieces in the history of music, originated in America hard on the heels of the “New World” Symphony. I wanted to write for once something very melodious and simple, and I always kept Papa Haydn before my eyes. The American critics lavished it with praise: “Why didn’t Dvořák come here earlier, since he can write such great music in America.” The “American” quartet, and, perhaps to an even greater extent, the subsequent quartet, Op. 106, the first composition Dvořák created after his return from America, are a heartfelt matter for the youthful Pavel Haas Quartet.
In the wake of the previous, highly acclaimed recordings of the complete quartet works of Janáček, Haas and Prokofiev (Classic FM Gramophone Award, BBC Music Magazine Award, MIDEM Cannes Classical Award, etc.), the ensemble displays its outstanding qualities performing the paramount Dvořák pieces too: equilibrium between precision and spontaneity, remarkable interplay and the “solo” potential of all the musicians.
The most popular Dvořák’s chamber repertoire performed by one of the world’s most exciting string quartets.
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Awards and reviews
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Presto Recording of the Week10th October 2011
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BBC Music MagazineDecember 2010Disc of the month
December 2010
Throughout, their understanding of the musical argument is exemplary...at every stage the performers respond with both passion and a clear feeling for musical line...In truth, there are so many details that delight the ear it would be almost impossible to list the all
January 2011
there's an arresting energy and atmosphere to the performances and they certainly contain new perspectives...the product is beautifully presented.
December 2010
The Pavel Haas Quartet play with plenty of feeling and they also relish the rhythmic cut and thrust of the Molto vivace third movement, capturing to perfection the more relaxed Trio's sunny spirit.The final opens to a gentle smile then keys up for some dancing exuberance...there's an abundance of varied drama
December 2010
The freshness of the Pavel Haas Quartet's sound and approach is in the main a perfect match for this music: its wide-ranging palette, from intimate whispers to grander, symphonic gestures, is aptly deployed. Its tone is in general sweetly blended, homogenous and with obvious close rapport.
14th November 2010
The Pavel Haas players revel in the turbulence of the opening movement, but they savour the lyricism of the beautiful adagio, the rhythmic energy of the scherzo and the exuberance of the finale’s fiery allegro. Their account of the American Quartet belongs alongside the greatest performances on disc. In this repertoire, they are simply matchless today.
