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Music for string quartet
by Janácek and Dvorák -
recommended by
ROBERT ANDERSON

'... an outstanding disc ...'

Janácek: The Two String Quartets. Dvorák: Cypresses. The Lindsays. Regis Records

All this music has a literary basis. In 1908-9 Janácek wrote a piano trio, most of which has been lost. Its inspiration was Tolstoy's Kreutzer Sonata, and it may be that the First String Quartet of 1923 incorporated a proportion of its thematic material...

Copyright © 23 February 2011 Robert Anderson,
London UK

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CD INFORMATION: JANÁCEK - THE TWO STRING QUARTETS

LEOS JANACEK

ANTONIN DVORAK

CZECH REPUBLIC

UNITED KINGDOM

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