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Bed​ř​ich Smetana: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2, From my Homeland

by Pražák Quartet, Václav Remeš, Sachiko Kayahara

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String Quartet No. 1 in E Minor, JB 1:105 "From My Life" I. Allegro vivo appassionato 07:31
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String Quartet No. 1 in E Minor, JB 1:105 "From My Life" II. Allegro moderato alla Polka 05:23
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String Quartet No. 1 in E Minor, JB 1:105 "From My Life" III. Largo sostenuto 08:48
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String Quartet No. 1 in E Minor, JB 1:105 "From My Life" IV. Vivace 05:59
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From the Homeland, JB 1:118 Two duos for violin and piano I. Moderato 04:58
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From the Homeland, JB 1:118 Two duos for violin and piano II. Andantino. Moderato. Allegro vivo. Moderato assai, Presto 07:11
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String Quartet No. 2 in D Minor, JB 1:124 I. Allegro 05:23
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String Quartet No. 2 in D Minor, JB 1:124 II. Allegro moderato 05:51
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String Quartet No. 2 in D Minor, JB 1:124 III. Allegro non più moderato, ma agitato e con fuoco 04:42
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String Quartet No. 2 in D Minor, JB 1:124 IV. Presto. Allegro 02:34
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Classical in the respect for established forms, romantic in its clearly autobiographical nature, the chamber music by Bedřich Smetana is not plentiful, especially when compared to the output of his younger, immediate successor, Antonín Dvořàk. His two quartets form essentially chapters of a diary written when the overtaxed composer was suffering from increasingly severe deafness. However Smetana compels recognition as a major composer in a genre theoretically not overly propitious to personal outpourings; he showed innate taste for clarity, concision, transparency of language maintaining that rare duality between learned, refined writing and a profoundly human message.

Awards: Choc by Le Monde de la Musique, Recommended by Répertoire, Recommended by Classica, 5 by Diapason, BBC Music Magazine

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released January 1, 1999

Pražák Quartet (Ensemble)
Václav Remeš (Violin)
Sachiko Kayahara (Piano)

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The Pražák Quartet, one of today´s leading string quartets, was founded in 1972 by students at the Prague Conservatory.

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