Special offer. Origins: Dvořák & Dabić
Akhtamar Quartet
Commissioned by the Akhtamar Quartet in 2024, Jelena Dabić's four-movement quartet, Anzhamanak, attempts to create a dialogue between Armenian and Balkan folk music...This attractive, cleverly...
Special offer. Origins: Dvořák & Dabić
Akhtamar Quartet
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Commissioned by the Akhtamar Quartet in 2024, Jelena Dabić's four-movement quartet, Anzhamanak, attempts to create a dialogue between Armenian and Balkan folk music...This attractive, cleverly...
About
Third album of the Akhtamar Quartet with Cypres, Origins combines classical and folk heritage with contemporary creation, inviting everyone to explore shared stories and universal emotions.
Since its creation, the Akhtamar Quartet has enjoyed intertwining classical and folk music and exploring different cultures. This approach is evident on each of its albums, while promoting a contemporary composer (Eugenie Alecian for Legende armenienne, Cypres - CYP1681, and Judith Adler de Oliveira for Enluminures, Cypres - CYP1684). From Antonin Dvorak to Jelena Dabic, a Serbian composer born in 1982, the music becomes eternal poetry and transports us through the ages.
Contents and tracklist
Dvořák:
String Quartet No. 13, Op. 106
Work length37:37
This work is only available as an album download.
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II. Adagio ma non troppo
Track length10:13
This track is only available as an album download.
IV. Finale. Andante sostenuto — Allegro con fuoco
Track length11:02
This track is only available as an album download.
Awards and reviews
March 2026
Commissioned by the Akhtamar Quartet in 2024, Jelena Dabić's four-movement quartet, Anzhamanak, attempts to create a dialogue between Armenian and Balkan folk music...This attractive, cleverly written music finds near-ideal advocates in the Akhtamar Quartet and is certainly worth investigating.
January 2026
Akhtamar place Dvořák at the lyrical, gently modern end of that spectrum. Their sound is compact and luminous, the resonance kept close to the string: articulation is finely drawn, vibrato controlled and varied, with edges subtly rounded beside the wider dynamic range of the Pavel Haas Quartet.
