Pavel Haas Quartet - Smetana: String Quartets No. 1 & No. 2 (2015)

Tracklist
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01. String Quartet No. 1 in E Minor "From My Life": I. Allegro vivo appassionato
02. String Quartet No. 1 in E Minor "From My Life": II. Allegro moderato a la polka
03. String Quartet No. 1 in E Minor "From My Life": III. Largo sostenuto
04. String Quartet No. 1 in E Minor "From My Life": IV. Vivace
05. String Quartet No. 2 in D Minor: I. Allegro
06. String Quartet No. 2 in D Minor: II. Allegro moderato - Andante cantabile
07. String Quartet No. 2 in D Minor: III. Allegro non piú moderato, ma agitato e con fuoco
08. String Quartet No. 2 in D Minor: IV. Finale - Presto


Following their 2014 Gramophone Award-winning recording of Schubert’s String Quartet No. 14 in D minor 'Death and the Maiden' and the Quintet in C major, the Quartet are returning once again to the work of a Czech composer.

On their new CD the Quartet will be playing Bedřich Smetana’s Quartet No. 1 in E minor 'From My Life' and Quartet No. 2 in D minor.

Pavel Haas Quartet was formed in 2002 and bears the name of Pavel Haas (1899-1944), a Czech composer of the first half of the 20th century. Since 2004 the Quartet has won many prestigious awards, including first place in the Prague Spring International Music Festival, BBC Music Magazine Chamber Choice, the MIDEM Classical Award, and three Gramophone awards.

Gramophone wrote that the Pavel Haas Quartet "represents the best qualities of the Czech tradition – warmth, sonorousness, individuality, intensity.”

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