String Quartets no. 1 & no. 2

Album by Leoš Janáček & The Medici Quartet

String Quartets No. 1 and No. 2 are two chamber works by the Czech composer Leoš Janáček, composed in 1923 and 1928 respectively. They exemplify Janáček's late stylistic language within the string quartet genre, combining speech-inspired melodic inflection, folk-tinged harmonies, incisive rhythmic drive and concentrated textures, and they occupy an important place in his late-career output and in 20th-century chamber music.

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  1. 1.
    String Quartet no. 1 "The Kreutzer Sonata": I. Adagio (con moto)
    4:20
  2. 2.
    String Quartet no. 1 "The Kreutzer Sonata": II. Con moto
    4:32
  3. 3.
    String Quartet no. 1 "The Kreutzer Sonata": III. Con moto (vivace, andante)
    4:23
  4. 4.
    String Quartet no. 1 "The Kreutzer Sonata": IV. Con moto (adagio)
    6:04
  5. 5.
    String Quartet no. 2 "Intimate Letters": I. Andante
    6:37
  6. 6.
    String Quartet no. 2 "Intimate Letters": II. Adagio
    6:42
  7. 7.
    String Quartet no. 2 "Intimate Letters": III. Moderato
    6:20
  8. 8.
    String Quartet no. 2 "Intimate Letters": IV. Allegro
    7:58

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