String Quartets: "From My Life" / "American"

Album by Bedřich Smetana & Antonín Dvořák & Amadeus Quartet

This album is a recording of chamber works by Czech composer Bedřich Smetana, presenting his two mature string quartets composed in 1876 and 1882. The quartets, rooted in late-Romantic harmonic language and infused with folk-influenced melodies and programme elements, chart Smetana's turn towards more personal and nationally oriented chamber writing within his later career.
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  1. 1.
    String Quartet no. 1 in E minor, T. 116 "From My Life": 1. Allegro vivo appassionato
    7:20
  2. 2.
    String Quartet no. 1 in E minor, T. 116 "From My Life": 2. Allegro moderato alla Polka
    5:36
  3. 3.
    String Quartet no. 1 in E minor, T. 116 "From My Life": 3. Largo sostenuto
    8:52
  4. 4.
    String Quartet no. 1 in E minor, T. 116 "From My Life": 4. Vivace
    5:54
  5. 5.
    String Quartet no. 12 in F major, op. 96, B. 179 "American": 1. Allegro ma non troppo
    7:07
  6. 6.
    String Quartet no. 12 in F major, op. 96, B. 179 "American": 2. Lento
    7:58
  7. 7.
    String Quartet no. 12 in F major, op. 96, B. 179 "American": 3. Molto vivace
    3:47
  8. 8.
    String Quartet no. 12 in F major, op. 96, B. 179 "American": 4. Finale (Vivace ma non troppo)
    5:35

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