Czech String Quartets - Pavel Haas Quartet, Vlach Quartet, Martin? Quartet, Smetana Quartet, Bohemian Quartet, Talich Quartet, Panocha Quartet (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Pavel Haas Quartet, Vlach Quartet, Martin? Quartet, Smetana Quartet, Bohemian Quartet, Talich Quartet, Panocha Quartet, Jana?ek Quartet, Wihan Quartet, ev?ik-Lhatsky Quartet. Excerpt: The Pavel Haas Quartet is a Czech string quartet which was founded in 2002. Their first album with the second quartets of Haas and Janaek won the 2007 Gramophone Award for Chamber music. The Gramophone reviewer David Fanning described their playing as "streamlined but full-blooded." The first violinist Veronika Jarkova was inspired to form the quartet after she attended concerts by the kampa Quartet in which her husband Peter Jarek was the cellist. She recruited other players in Prague, some of whom had studied with the same teachers. Initially the group consisted of, besides Jarkova, Kateina Gemrotova (second violin), Pavel Nikl (violist), and Luka Polak (cellist). After its formation Polak decided to leave because of incompatibility, so the two quartets ended up exchanging cellists, with Jarkova's husband joining the Haas Quartet and Polak joining the kampa Quartet. Later the second violinist (Gemrotova) was replaced by Marie Fuxova, who in September 2008 was replaced by Eva Karova, the youngest member in the group at 25 years of age (in November 2009); the oldest was only 33. The quartet is named after the Czech composer Pavel Haas (18991944), who was deported from Czechoslovakia in 1941, initially imprisoned at the work camp Terezin, and finally died at Auschwitz. Although aware of the significance of the circumstances of Haas's final years, the group did not intend to make a statement about the Holocaust, but rather selected the name primarily because of his importance to Czech music and in particular because of his three string quartets, all of which t... More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=10829658