Manifesto on Love Barbican Quartet

• Leoš Janáček (1854 - 1928): String Quartet No. 2 “Listy důvěrné”:
• 1Janáček: String Quartet No. 2 “Listy důvěrné” (Intimate Letters): I. Andante – Con moto – Allegro06:47
• 2Janáček: String Quartet No. 2 “Listy důvěrné” (Intimate Letters): II. Adagio – Vivace06:47
• 3Janáček: String Quartet No. 2 “Listy důvěrné” (Intimate Letters): III. Moderato – Andante – Adagio05:53
• 4Janáček: String Quartet No. 2 “Listy důvěrné” (Intimate Letters): IV. Allegro – Andante – Adagio09:18
• Dobrinka Tabakova (b. 1980): The Ear of Grain:
• 5Tabakova: The Ear of Grain07:39
• Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856): String Quartet No. 3 in A Major, Op. 41:
• 6Schumann: String Quartet No. 3 in A Major, Op. 41: I. Andante espressivo – Allegro molto moderato07:39
• 7Schumann: String Quartet No. 3 in A Major, Op. 41: II. Assai agitato06:49
• 8Schumann: String Quartet No. 3 in A Major, Op. 41: III. Adagio molto08:28
• 9Schumann: String Quartet No. 3 in A Major, Op. 41: IV. Finale. Allegro molto vivace – Quasi Trio07:13
• 3 Zweistimmige Lieder, Op. 43/1:
• 10Schumann: 3 Zweistimmige Lieder, Op. 43/1: I. Wenn ich ein Vöglein wär01:55
• Total Runtime01:08:28

Info for Manifesto on Love

As 1st prize winner of the 2022 ARD Music Competition, the Barbican Quartet is one of the most sought-after young string quartet formations. The internationally composed ensemble is now releasing its debut album on GENUIN: "Manifesto on Love", with works by Leoš Janácek and Robert Schumann. The contrast between Schumann's expansive musical lines and Janácek’s nervous surfaces and ecstatic outbursts could not be greater – yet the Barbican Quartet unites them as expressions of human need for love, for togetherness. Two works of the most intimate musical genre played at a phenomenal level!

Barbican Quartet

The Barbican Quartet
is a captivating ensemble, admired for their rich sonority, exceptional sensitivity and powerful performances. In 2022 they were awarded First Prize and four special prizes at the 71st ARD International Music Competition.

The Barbican Quartet was formed in 2014 at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. They quickly established themselves as a promising young quartet and won numerous awards which led to debuts at the Barbican Hall and Wigmore Hall. The quartet then joined the class of Günter Pichler at the Reina Sofia School of Music, and in 2019 won the First Prize at the International Joseph Joachim Competition in Weimar, sparking the beginning of their international career.

The quartet enjoys creating original programmes and thematically connecting pieces from different epochs, equally at home in a vast repertoire from the Renaissance to today. In their debut recording with GENUIN Classics, they seek to link Janácek’s Intimate Letters and Schumann’s Third Quartet in A major by a common thread: the love letter, as well as offer the premiere recording of Dobrinka Tabakova’s The Ear Of Grain .

The Barbican Quartet is immensely grateful to their mentors Quatuor Ébène and Eberhard Feltz for their inspiration and guidance, and the Dutch Musical Instruments Foundation and the Canimex Group, for their ongoing support and beautiful instruments.

Booklet for Manifesto on Love