Janáček - String Quartet No. 2 'Intimate Letters'
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Chamber » Quartets » String Quartets
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…what is immediately striking about the present performance is its boldness and originality in terms of tempo contrasts, rhythmic emphasis and textural variety. Not only the playing beyond... —
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Building a Library, September 2012, First Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2006, Chamber Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Winner - Chamber
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2007, Best Newcomer
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The main interpretative obstacle in the First Quartet is how to gauge the progression of its first three movement so the finale is a culmination without obliterating that went before. The Belcea... —
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Diapason d’Or, May 2019
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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Building a Library, April 2023, Also Recommended
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Building a Library, April 2023, Also Recommended
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For a moment or two in the Smetana one might think that the Takács Quartet's almost Olympian objectivity wouldn't suit music that often seems to well up so directly from the heart. In fact it's... —
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Building a Library, April 2023, Also Recommended
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Janácek: Chamber & Orchestral Works
RecommendedA 5 CD box to mark the 150th anniversary of Janácek's birth
Paul Crossley (piano), Gabrieli String Quartet, Kenneth Sillito (violin) Paul Crossley (piano), Eva Urbanová (soprano), Marta Benackova (mezzo-soprano), Vladimir Bogachov (tenor), Richard Novák (bass), Thomas Trotter (organ)
London Sinfonietta and Wiener Philharmoniker, Wiener Philharmoniker,...
a very useful and inexpensive way of acquiring a lot of Janacek...Chailly's strong and refined reading of the Glagolitic Mass makes a splendid finale for this set, with fine detail brought out... —
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Building a Library, April 2005, Modern Choice
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There is much to admire here from the excellent Jerusalem Quartet. In Smetana's First Quartet there is the fine opening viola melody...The slow movements of the Janacek quartets are also carefully... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Janáček: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2 & Sonata for Violin and Piano
RecommendedPrazák Quartet (string quartet), Václav Remeš, Sachiko Kayahara
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Building a Library, April 2023, Recommended Recording
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Janacek: String Quartets
RecommendedGunter Teuffel (viola d‘amore), Gunter Teuffel (viola)
Mandelring Quartet
For Janacek collectors, this is of course an enthralling disc, and one to engage the attention of anyone gripped by the passionate, even violent interactions of Janacek's life and his music —
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Building a Library, September 2012, Also Recommended
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These are highly strung performances, not always comfortable but alive. —
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Building a Library, April 2023, Also Recommended
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