Janáček: Chamber Works New Zealand String Quartet

• Leoš Janáček (1854 - 1928): String Quartet No. 1, JW VII/8 "Kreutzer":
• 1 Janáček: String Quartet No. 1, JW VII/8 "Kreutzer": I. Adagio con moto 04:01
• 2 Janáček: String Quartet No. 1, JW VII/8 "Kreutzer": II. Con moto 04:18
• 3 Janáček: String Quartet No. 1, JW VII/8 "Kreutzer": III. Con moto - Vivo - Andante 04:03
• 4 Janáček: String Quartet No. 1, JW VII/8 "Kreutzer": IV. Con moto 05:17
• String Quartet No. 2, JW VII/13 "Intimate Letters":
• 5 Janáček: String Quartet No. 2, JW VII/13 "Intimate Letters": I. Andante 05:58
• 6 Janáček: String Quartet No. 2, JW VII/13 "Intimate Letters": II. Adagio 05:55
• 7 Janáček: String Quartet No. 2, JW VII/13 "Intimate Letters": III. Moderato 05:31
• 8 Janáček: String Quartet No. 2, JW VII/13 "Intimate Letters": IV. Allegro - Andante - Adagio 08:16
• Leoš Janáček:
• 9 Janáček: Sonnet No. 2 in D Minor, JW VII/2 (Arr. R. Gjelsten for String Quartet) 02:27
• 10 Janáček: Sonnet No. 1 in A Major, JW VII/1 (Arr. R. Gjelsten for String Quartet) 02:22
• Total Runtime 48:08

Info for Janáček: Chamber Works

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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