Dvorak / Haas - Quintets 81 & 97 - VINYL LP

This recording, although relatively new, is one of the rarest gems in the Supraphon archives. After the initial positive reactions the extraordinary quality of the recording was confirmed by prestigious Gramophone Awards; in addition to winning the chamber music category, the young ensemble also brought home from London the top prize Recording of the Year. Eight years after the first edition, Supraphon is releasing this delicacy for true audiophiles. Dvorák's mature works perhaps best mirror the ensemble's extraordinary qualities the equilibrium between precision and spontaneity, the remarkable ensemble playing, and the solo potential of all of the individual players. At the end of the draft of his Quartet Op. 96, Antonín Dvorák wrote the comment InchI'm satisfied; it went quickly...Inch Soon after the InchNew World SymphonyInch, he composed one of the most beautiful of all string quartets while still in America - and the critics were unsparing in their praise. For the Pavel Haas Quartet, both the InchAmericanInch Quartet and the following Quartet Op. 106, the first work composed after the composer's return home from America, are literally affairs of the heart. According to the Sunday Times InchIn this repertoire, they are simply matchless today.Inch Dvorák might even have written his comment InchI'm satisfiedInch about this recording as well.

Rebel - Son/Stes/Biagio/Son (3)/& [COMPACT DISCS] date 08/17/1999

Seven years after they triumphed with Dvorák's quartets, Pavel Haas Quartet are back to Dvorák. For the occasion of recording his quintets, they have invited two guests the pianist Boris Giltburg (winner of 2013 Queen Elizabeth Competition), as well as one of the PHQ founding members, violist Pavel Nikl. Antonín Dvorák composed his Piano Quintet No. 2 while staying at his beloved summer house in Vysoká in the late summer of 1887. The renowned critic Eduard Hanslick responded to it's performance in Vienna enthusiastically InchIt is one of his most beautiful works. A genuine Dvorák.Inch The String Quintet op. 97, albeit only six years younger, presents a completely Inchdifferent DvorákInch. After the Symphony from the New World and the InchAmericanInch quartet, the string quintet is the composer's third work written in America. Besides drawing inspiration from the music of the Native American tribe of the Iroquois which he heard in Spillville in the summer of 1893, he built the third movement around a theme that he had previously considered using in a proposal for a new American anthem. And Hanslick's testimonial? InchThis is probably the simplest, most natural and happiest music composed since Haydn's times. The ear enjoys it with an easy-going attitude and the spirit is not bored for a single moment.Inch Pavel Haas Quartet is at home in Dvorák's music - to quote the Sunday Times, InchIn this repertoire, they are simply matchless today.Inch