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Janacek - String Quartet No 2 “Intimate Letters” / Pavel Haas - String Quartet No.2 “From the monkey mountains”         | Supraphon SU38772

Janacek - String Quartet No 2 “Intimate Letters” / Pavel Haas - String Quartet No.2 “From the monkey mountains”

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Label: Supraphon

Cat No: SU38772

Barcode: 0099925387723

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 16th October 2006

Gramophone Award Winner Radio 3 Building a Library First Choice

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About

GRAMPHONE AWARD WINNER 2007 - CHAMBER MUSIC CATEGORY

The Pavel Haas Quartet, a young ensemble named after a significant 20th century Czech composer, has very quickly attained a place among the top quartets. The ensemble won the Prague Spring International Music Competition in May, 2005, and took first place at the prestigious Premio Paolo Borciani competition in Reggio Emilia, Italy one month later.

For their recording debut, the ensemble has chosen Leoš Janáèek’s greatest work, the famous and often-recorded “Intimate Letters”, as well as Pavel Haas’ second string quartet.

Pavel Haas was one of the most promising voices in Czech muisc, and would surely have established an international reputation, were it not for his untimely death in Auschwitz in 1944.

Haas wrote the second string quartet, titled “From the Monkey Mountains”, at the age of 26 as a reminiscence of his summer holiday in the Czech-Moravian Highlands, which went by this nickname in Brno at the time. The individual movements are more or less genre images. The quartet joins forces here with the 30 year old internationally renowned percussionist from Edinburgh, Colin Currie, to present the version with percussion instruments.

The programme nature of the work is fully consistent with Janácek. The substance and orientation of the music, however, are entirely Haas, underscored by the prescribed ad libitum use of the jazz band.

Awards:
BBC Radio 3 Disc of the Week - December 2006
ClassicsToday Discs of the Month - November 2006
BBC Music Magazine Recommended - November 2006
Telegraph Classical CDs of the Week - October 2006

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