Klenke-Quartett - String Quartets - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Bach, J.S. / Opus 4 - Mit Bach in Leipzig [COMPACT DISCS] date 07/28/2009

The Doric String Quartet, now established as one of the finest young ensembles in the world and exclusive on Chandos, pays homage to Czech chamber music of the 1920s with these string quartets by Janacek and Martinu. As acknowledged by Janacek himself, his two string programmatic quartets are a vehicle for his deepest feelings. Martinu's Third String Quartet reflects the influences of his teacher Albert Roussel as well as the night-life ragtime and jazz world of late 1920s Paris, where and when it was written. The work itself features some striking harmonic clashes and colorful scoring.

Arkadiusz Bialic was born in 1976 in Kraków. Although he initially learned to play the piano and violin, at the age of 13, fascinated by the sound of the organ, he began learning to play this instrument. He studied music in Kraków under the guidance of Prof. Józef Serafin. Arkadiusz Bialic is the first Polish winner of the prestigious Grand Prix de Chartres. The cycle La Nativité du Seigneur was composed by Olivier Messiaen in 1935 and is still considered one of his key works. The Birth of the Saviour is a piece in which, on the one hand, we can observe a number of solutions that testify to the fully developed compositional craft of the French artist, on the other, it is one of the most fervent manifestations of Messiaen's worship of Christ and the Christian religion.