Brahms - String Quartets Op.51 Nos. 1 & 2 - Janáček Quartet (1988)

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Brahms - String Quartets Op.51 Nos. 1 & 2 - Janáček Quartet (1988)
EAC Rip | FLAC (img + cue), LOG | TT 59:07 | Covers (jpg 300 dpi) | RAR 304 MB (3% Recovery)
Supraphon | Czechoslovakia | 11 0644-2 111 | 1988

It is sometimes rightly said that the opera, the symphony, and the symphonic poem were closer to the musical spirit of High Romanticism than the much more subtle and introverted world of chamber music. Nonetheless, there were also composers in whose compositional legacy one finds both genres represented to an equal degree. Among them towers Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), who devoted himself practically throughout his entire creative career to chamber music in its most varied forms and instrumental combinations. Among Brahms' weightiest artistic testimonies is his chamber music for strings. Having composed two important string sextets in his youth, he rounded them off with two string quintets and a string quintet with clarinet during his later years. All three of his string quartets stem from his middle creative period, with the exception of an early quartet in В minor which Brahms did not want to have published. Owing to the memoirs of Joseph Joachim and Clara Schumann, we know that Brahms was already contemplating the composition of his first quartet - the Quartet in С minor, Op. 51,1 - in 1865. However, he completed it only in 1873 together with its fellow work, the Quartet in A minor, Op. 51,2. Two years later, not long before the completion of his First Symphony, he rounded off his works in this chamber music genre with the Quartet in В flat major, Op. 67. All three quartets share certain characteristic traits: a classical structure in four movements, a masterfully composed introductory movement in sonata form, an imaginative treatment of variations, a logical and typically Brahmsian elaboration of the musical development, and the various contrasting sections which flow into each other without violent transitions and are often directly motivically related (such as, for example, those in the outer movements of the Quartets in С minor and В flat major). But besides these basic, common features, each quartet has its own unmistakable profile. While the first quartet is dramatic and full of passion, the second is predominantly lyrical. The third - which is not presented on this recording - radiates the joy of active music-making and is high-lighted by ingenious variations and striking rhythmic ideas. All these masterpieces belong to the standard repertoire of prominent quartet ensembles.
The Janacek Quartet, founded in 1947, bears this name since 1949. The ensemble attained wider recognition particularly after its triumphal performance in West Berlin in 1955. But it was only starting in 1956, when it was officially designated as the chamber ensemble of the Brno State Philharmonic Orchestra, that it could fully begin to develop its concert activity Although there have been several changes among the members of the quartet over the years, the ensemble has maintained its artistic continuity as well as its strikingly unique interpretative style. The Janacek Quartet's repertoire contains works of the Classical and Romantic eras and of Impressionism besides the string quartets of eminent 20th-century masters.

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