String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2

Album by Leoš Janáček & Škampovo kvarteto

String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2 are two chamber works by Czech composer Leoš Janáček, composed in 1923 and 1928. They exemplify Janáček's mature chamber style, combining folk-influenced motifs and speech-like melodic contours with angular rhythms and concentrated harmonic language, and occupy a pivotal place in his late-period output as explorations of personal expression and modernist idioms.

String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2 by Janáček - album cover

First released: 11th June 2001

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1.
String Quartet No. 1 “Kreutzer”: I. Adagio - Con moto
3:55
2.
String Quartet No. 1 “Kreutzer”: II. Con moto
4:09
3.
String Quartet No. 1 “Kreutzer”: III. Con moto - Vivo - Andante
3:40
4.
String Quartet No. 1 “Kreutzer”: V. Con moto - Adagio - Maestoso
5:03
5.
String Quartet No. 2 “Intimate Letters”: I. Andante con moto - Allegro
5:55
6.
String Quartet No. 2 “Intimate Letters”: II. Adagio - Vivace
5:35
7.
String Quartet No. 2 “Intimate Letters”: III. Moderato - Adagio - Allegro
5:32
8.
String Quartet No. 2 “Intimate Letters”: IV. Allegro - Andante - Allegro
7:14

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