Fanfare, May 1st, 2008
JANÁCEK String Quartets: No. 1, "Kreutzer Sonata;" No. 2, "Intimate Letters." Allegro.1 Violin Sonata * Dante Qrt; Krysia Osostowicz (vn);1 Ferenc Rados (pn)1 * MERIDIAN 84560 (66:50)
Leos Janácek's two string quartets have long stood among the 20th century's most important contributions to the literature, alongside the quartets of Bartók and Shostakovich. Considering their dates of composition-1914 and 1928 respectively-one cannot consider Janácek's musical vocabulary radically modern or avant-garde for its time. By 1914, Bartók's First String Quartet was already five years old, Schoenb...
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