Leos Janacek - Janácek: String Quartets Nos. 1 and 2/Sonnets

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Number of Discs
1
Release Date
12/02/2021
Artist
Leos Janacek
format
CD / Album
Label / Studio
Naxos
Duration
48.14

Janácek'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 Janácek 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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1) I. Adagio - Con Moto ()
2) II. Con Moto ()
3) III. Con Moto - Vivo - Andante ()
4) IV. Con Moto ()
5) I. Andante ()
6) II. Adagio ()
7) III. Moderato ()
8) IV. Allegro ()
9) Znelka in D Minor, JWVII/2 ()
10) Znelka in a Major, JWVII/1 ()

Album
Janácek: String Quartets Nos. 1 and 2/Sonnets
Publisher
Naxos Music UK
Main Format
CD
Explicit Lyrics
No
Keyword Index
Janácek: String Quartets Nos. 1 and 2/Sonnets | Leos Janacek
Catalogue Number
8574209

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