String Quartet no. 1 "Kreutzer" / String Quartet no. 2 "Intimate Letters"

Album by Leoš Janáček & Pražák Quartet & Václav Remeš & Sachiko Kayahara

This album pairs two late chamber works for string quartet by Czech composer Leoš Janáček, composed in 1923 and 1928. Musically they combine speech-inflected, folk-tinged melodies with bold harmonic shifts, intricate rhythms and intense emotional contrasts, marking some of Janáček's most mature chamber writing and reflecting his late-career turn towards personal, autobiographical expression.
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  1. 1.
    String Quartet No. 1 "Kreutzer Sonata", JW 7/8: I. Adagio. Con moto
    4:10
  2. 2.
    String Quartet No. 1 "Kreutzer Sonata", JW 7/8: II. Con moto
    4:18
  3. 3.
    String Quartet No. 1 "Kreutzer Sonata", JW 7/8: III. Con Moto. Vivace. Andante. Tempo I.
    3:54
  4. 4.
    String Quartet No. 1 "Kreutzer Sonata", JW 7/8: IV. Con moto
    5:09
  5. 5.
    Sonata for violin and piano, JW 7/7: I. Con moto
    4:55
  6. 6.
    Sonata for violin and piano, JW 7/7: II. Ballade. Con moto
    4:46
  7. 7.
    Sonata for violin and piano, JW 7/7: III. Allegretto
    2:20
  8. 8.
    Sonata for violin and piano, JW 7/7: IV. Adagio
    4:47
  9. 9.
    String Quartet No. 2 "Intimate Letters", JW 7/13: I. Andante - Con moto - Allegro
    5:59
  10. 10.
    String Quartet No. 2 "Intimate Letters", JW 7/13: II. Adagio - Vivace - Andante - Presto - Allegro - Vivo - Adagio
    5:52
  11. 11.
    String Quartet No. 2 "Intimate Letters", JW 7/13: III. Moderato - Adagio - Allegro
    6:06
  12. 12.
    String Quartet No. 2 "Intimate Letters", JW 7/13: IV. Allegro - Andante - Con Moto - Adagio - Tempo I
    7:53

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