New Zealand String Quartet - Janáček: Chamber Works (2021) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. String Quаrtet No. 1, JW VII/8 "Kreutzer": I. Adagio con moto
02. String Quartet No. 1, JW VII/8 "Kreutzer": II. Con moto
03. String Quartet No. 1, JW VII/8 "Kreutzer": III. Con moto - Vivo - Andante
04. String Quartet No. 1, JW VII/8 "Kreutzer": IV. Con moto
05. String Quartet No. 2, JW VII/13 "Intimate Letters": I. Andante
06. String Quartet No. 2, JW VII/13 "Intimate Letters": II. Adagio
07. String Quartet No. 2, JW VII/13 "Intimate Letters": III. Moderato
08. String Quartet No. 2, JW VII/13 "Intimate Letters": IV. Allegro - Andante - Adagio
09. Sonnet No. 2 in D Minor, JW VII/2 (Arr. R. Gjelsten for String Quartet)
10. Sonnet No. 1 in A Major, JW VII/1 (Arr. R. Gjelsten for String Quartet)



Janáček’s final decade saw an almost unprecedented creative renewal during which he wrote some of his greatest works. Among them were his chamber music masterpieces, the two String Quartets. The first was inspired by Tolstoy’s novella, The Kreutzer Sonata, a torrid tale of adultery and murder to which Janáček responded with music of increasingly frenzied passion. The second was subtitled "Intimate Letters", a freely evolving work full of yearning and amorous defiance. Originally cast for four violins, the two youthful Sonnets date from 1875 and balance the archaisms of the first with the lyricism of the second.

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