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COVIELLO<br />
Leoš Janáček (1854-1928)<br />
String Quartets No. 1 “The Kreutzer Sonata” &<br />
No. 2 “Intimate letters”<br />
Béla Bartók (1881-1945)<br />
String Quartet No. 4<br />
COV 50802<br />
CD<br />
PC: 01Q<br />
Rec.date: 2007<br />
4 039956 508021<br />
BENNEWITZ QUARTET:<br />
Jirí Nemecek, Stepán Jezek, violin – Jirí Pinkas, viola – Stepán Dolezal, cello<br />
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"You stand behind every note, you, living, forceful, loving ... Oh, it's a work as if carved out of living<br />
flesh. I think that I won't write a more profound and a truer one." The passionate lover's declaration<br />
of a 73-year-old. Leoš Janáček's second string quartet "Intimate Letters" can scarcely be<br />
surpassed in the profundity of its personal expressiveness. He composed his first string quartet a<br />
few years earlier and gave it the subtitle "The Kreutzer Sonata," after the novella by Leo Tolstoy.<br />
An emotional intensity is steadily built up during the four movements of the quartet. Parallels to the<br />
narrative of Tolstoy's tale, which ultimately ends in the catastrophic murder out of jealousy, are<br />
clearly recognizable. Critics also spoke of the "fiery glow of human emotions" in Béla Bartók's<br />
fourth string quartet.<br />
Soon after its establishment at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague in 1998 Bennewitz<br />
Quartet acquired a wide reputation and quickly found its way among the most outstanding<br />
chamber music ensembles of Czech musical life. The work of the Quartet was honoured with<br />
various awards not only in the Czech Republic, but also in many places abroad. The ensemble<br />
regularly participates in various international music festivals and its reputation often attracts<br />
prestigious invitations to European venues.
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