String Quartets Nos. 1 and 2

Album by Leoš Janáček & Janáček Quartet

String Quartets Nos. 1 and 2 are two string quartets by Czech composer Leoš Janáček, composed in 1923 and 1928 respectively. Both works exemplify his late-period chamber style, characterised by speech-melody motifs, irregular rhythms, terse textures and folk-tinged melodic fragments, and they represent a shift towards a more personal, expressionistic voice within his chamber-music output.

String Quartets Nos. 1 and 2 by Leoš Janáček - album cover

First released: 1964

Classical

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1.
String Quartet No. 1 (Inspired by Tolstoy's "Kreutzer Sonata"): I. Adagio. Con Moto
4:49
2.
String Quartet No. 1 (Inspired by Tolstoy's "Kreutzer Sonata"): II. Con Moto
4:16
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String Quartet No. 1 (Inspired by Tolstoy's "Kreutzer Sonata"): III. Con Moto. Vivace. Andante
3:57
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String Quartet No. 1 (Inspired by Tolstoy's "Kreutzer Sonata"): IV. Con Moto. Adagio
5:09
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String Quartet No. 2 ("Intimate Pages"): I. Andante
6:18
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String Quartet No. 2 ("Intimate Pages"): II. Adagio
6:18
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String Quartet No. 2 ("Intimate Pages"): III. Moderato
5:56
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String Quartet No. 2 ("Intimate Pages"): IV. Allegro
7:40