String Quartets nos. 1-2 / “On an Overgrown Path”

Album by Leoš Janáček & Jarmil Burghauser & Quartetto Energie Nove

String Quartets Nos. 1 and 2 and the piano cycle On an Overgrown Path are works by Czech composer Leoš Janáček, composed in 1923 and 1928 (the quartets) and between 1900 and 1911 (On an Overgrown Path). Musically they showcase Janáček’s late-modernist language, combining folk-influenced melodic gestures, speech-melody inflections and a terse, sometimes dissonant harmonic palette that links late-Romantic expressiveness with early 20th-century modernism, and they occupy a central place in his mature chamber and piano output.

String Quartets nos. 1-2 / “On an Overgrown Path” by Leoš Janáček - album cover

First released: 2016

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1.
String Quartet no. 1 “Kreutzer Sonata”: I. Adagio - Con moto
4:28
2.
String Quartet no. 1 “Kreutzer Sonata”: II. Con moto
4:28
3.
String Quartet no. 1 “Kreutzer Sonata”: III. Con moto
3:58
4.
String Quartet no. 1 “Kreutzer Sonata”: IV. Con moto
5:22
5.
“On an Overgrown Path” (Book One): I. Our Evenings (Moderato)
3:18
6.
“On an Overgrown Path” (Book One): II. A Blown-Away Leaf (Andante)
3:11
7.
“On an Overgrown Path” (Book One): III. Come With Us (Andante)
1:14
8.
“On an Overgrown Path” (Book One): IV. The Madonna of Frydek (Grave)
2:49
9.
“On an Overgrown Path” (Book One): V. They Chattered Like Swallows (Con mMoto)
2:01
10.
“On an Overgrown Path” (Book One): VI. Words Fail (Andante)
2:11
11.
“On an Overgrown Path” (Book One): VII. Good Night (Andante)
3:24
12.
“On an Overgrown Path” (Book One): VIII. Unutterable Anguish (Andante)
3:53
13.
“On an Overgrown Path” (Book One): IX. In Tears (Larghetto)
2:25
14.
“On an Overgrown Path” (Book One): X. The Barn Owl Has Not Flown Away (Andante)
4:07
15.
String Quartet no. 2 “Intimate Letters”: I. Andante
6:18
16.
String Quartet no. 2 “Intimate Letters”: II. Adagio
5:51
17.
String Quartet no. 2 “Intimate Letters”: III. Moderato
5:27
18.
String Quartet no. 2 “Intimate Letters”: IV. Con moto
8:41