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Lettres intimes: String Quartets by Bartok, Schulhoff & Janacek | Alpha ALPHA268

Lettres intimes: String Quartets by Bartok, Schulhoff & Janacek

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Label: Alpha

Cat No: ALPHA268

Barcode: 3760014192685

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 24th February 2017

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The Quatuor Voce, which recently celebrated its tenth anniversary, follows up its two recordings of Mozart with Juliette Hurel (Alpha204) and Brahms with Lise Berthaud (Alpha214) by inviting us on a journey to central Europe. The three works recorded here were written over a period of twenty years. Two of them allude to their composer’s love lives. Bartók’s First Quartet might be seen as Beethoven’s Quartet no.17. The intense opening Lento is a lyric-dramatic movement that transposes an unhappy experience of love. No previous quartet had come so close to the Beethovenian ideal. Janáček’s Second Quartet reflects his love for Kamila Stösslová, and is a faithful mirror of emotions in all their spontaneous and constantly shifting authenticity. Schulhoff was one of the first Jewish composers to fall victim to Nazi barbarity. Inventive, omnivorously curious, he was a virtuoso pianist who performed both jazz and serial music. His Five Pieces consist of a suite of dances in different styles, successively Alla Valse viennese, Alla Serenata, Alla Czeca, Alla Tango milonga and Alla Tarantella.

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