Dvorak / Vogler Qrt - String QRTS 2 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The Vogler Quartet Interprets Dvorák, Vol. 3. Individuality developed and revealed in ensemble performance - herein surely lies the secret of the Vogler Quartet, which has pursued a unique career with an unchanged membership ever since 1985. FonoForum wrote of Vol. 1 of our complete edition featuring all of Dvorák's quartets, InchThe Vogler Quartet seeks rich sonority, sharp rhythmic contouring, and warm, earthy colors. In every respect a successful beginning for this complete edition.Inch Vol. 3 of our edition by these highly acclaimed interpreters, which also includes the String Quintet and Piano Quintet, presents more quartets by Dvorák. His Quartet No. 3 in D major, over sixty minutes in duration, ranks as what is surely one of the most extensive string quartets in the entire literature. The fact that he composed it immediately around the time of the premiere of Wagner's Meistersinger no doubt also contributed to the work's expansive dimensions. Dvorák's String Quartet in E major composed in 1876 belongs to his middle compositional period, during which he did a great deal of experimenting with form and harmony. The slow movement may already be interpreted as a forerunner of later dumka movements. The Ukrainian word dumka - as a Pan-Slavist Dvorák in no way was influenced merely by the folklore of his native country - can be derived from dumatj (Inchto thinkInch) and means as much as Inchcontemplative melody.Inch This folk ballad in which songs and dance melodies are linked together is not bound to a particular form. Exciting listening!

Despite his many successes, Antonin Dvorak always claimed to have remained a Inchsimple Bohemian musicianInch - a self-description that, ironically, has made it harder for posterity to appreciate the breadth of his work fully. This is particularly evident in the realm of chamber music, a field Dvorak explored even more extensively than his mentor, Johannes Brahms. With more than a dozen string quartets alone, alongside various other smaller and larger formats, Dvorak's body of work offers a broad spectrum, where the so-called InchSlavicInch tones are by no means always the dominant voice. With this fifth double album, the Hagen Quartet concludes it's acclaimed complete recording, which spans the fascinating range from Dvorak's early grapplings with Wagner and Liszt to his later reflections on the InchNew WorldInch, revealing unexpected depths behind the face of the Inchhumble musicianInch.

Robert Schumann, a versatile, well-educated young artist destined for great things, a man whose music has always amazed with it's extent and profundity... and also a person of delicate psyche, which many a time led him to the very border between life and death. He composed the Piano Quartet in C minor, his first piece of this ilk, at the age of 18, and although, notwithstanding his original intention, he would never remake it into a symphony, he still had it on his mind some 20 years later InchI vividly recollect a passage in one of my works (1828), which I thought was romantic, with a spirit different to that of old music that appeared to me as though opening up a new poetic life.Inch The Piano Quartet in E flat major, Op. 47, already attests to Schumann's compositional mastery, with it's idiom inspired by Bach and Beethoven yet speaking in a clearly singular language. The 1853 Märchenerzählungen (Fairy Tale Narrations), was one of the composer's last happy creative upswings, written shortly before he attempted suicide by jumping from a bridge into the river Rhine with the aim to put an end to his unbearable mental torment. The Dvorák Piano Quartet's album spans the entire arch of Schumann's work the beginning, the peak and the end. Just like all his music, it shows how immense beauty is often close to pain and suffering. Immense beauty and anguish of the soul in Schumann's chamber music.