Vital and Committed
Music for string quartet by Janácek and Dvorák -
recommended by ROBERT ANDERSON'... an outstanding disc ...'
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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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