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Stamic Quartet - Karel Kovařovic: The Complete String Quartets (album teaser)

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Buy, stream or download ► https://lnk.to/StamicQuartetKarelKova... Stamic Quartet: Jindřich Pazdera - first violin, Josef Kekula - second violin, Jan Pěruška - viola, Petr Hejný - cello The Stamic Quartet's repertoire ranges from Baroque to 21st-century music (the highly acclaimed album of Sofia Gubaidulina's complete quartets, Supraphon 2012), yet the ensemble mainly focus on works dating from the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries. Following the revelatory premiere recording of Josef Bohuslav Foerster's quartets (Supraphon, 2010), they have now come up with another striking project. Karel Kovařovic (1862-1920) is primarily known for his work as the director of the opera company of the National Theatre in Prague, as well as a conductor, while his own music has been generally overlooked. Nevertheless, Kovařovic wrote several operas, ballet and incidental music, songs, choral and chamber pieces. The Stamic Quartet has made t …...more
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Stamic Quartet - Karel Kovařovic: The Complete String Quartets (album teaser)
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Buy, stream or download ► https://lnk.to/StamicQuartetKarelKova... Stamic Quartet: Jindřich Pazdera - first violin, Josef Kekula - second violin, Jan Pěruška - viola, Petr Hejný - cello The Stamic Quartet's repertoire ranges from Baroque to 21st-century music (the highly acclaimed album of Sofia Gubaidulina's complete quartets, Supraphon 2012), yet the ensemble mainly focus on works dating from the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries. Following the revelatory premiere recording of Josef Bohuslav Foerster's quartets (Supraphon, 2010), they have now come up with another striking project. Karel Kovařovic (1862-1920) is primarily known for his work as the director of the opera company of the National Theatre in Prague, as well as a conductor, while his own music has been generally overlooked. Nevertheless, Kovařovic wrote several operas, ballet and incidental music, songs, choral and chamber pieces. The Stamic Quartet has made the very first recording of his string quartets, which are yet to be published. The most remarkable of them is String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, dedicated to Antonín Dvořák, which six years after its premiere in Prague (1888) was performed at the Musikverein in Vienna. Kovařovic did not finish his String Quartet No. 3, most likely owing to his being extremely busy as a conductor and his new responsibilities at the National Theatre. The new album made by the Stamic Quartet serves to prove that Kovařovic's quartets deserve to be paid much greater attention to than has been the case over the past century. Karel Kovařovic's string quartets - an extraordinary discovery more than a century after they were created. Smyčcový kvartet č. 1 D dur (1879), č. 2 a moll op. 7 (1887), č. 3 G dur (nedokončený, 1894) Stamicovo kvarteto: Jindřich Pazdera – 1. housle, Josef Kekula – 2. housle, Jan Pěruška – viola, Petr Hejný – violoncello Repertoár Stamicova kvarteta zahrnuje díla od baroka až po 21. století (viz vysoce ceněný komplet kvartetů Sofie Gubajduliny, Supraphon 2012), jeho těžiště je však třeba hledat na přelomu 19. a 20. století. Po objevné premiérové nahrávce kvartetů Josefa Bohuslava Foerstera (Supraphon 2010) přichází soubor s dalším překvapením. Jméno Karla Kovařovice (1862–1920) bývá obvykle spojováno s jeho působením na pozici šéfa opery pražského Národního divadla, popř. s jeho rolí dirigentskou. Zcela stranou jako by stálo jeho dílo skladatelské. Je to s podivem; Kovařovic má na svém kontě několik oper, hudbu baletní a scénickou, písně, sbory i díla komorní. Jeho smyčcové kvartety však dosud nevyšly tiskem a Stamicovo kvarteto zde předkládá jejich premiérovou nahrávku. Nejpozoruhodnější z nich, Kvartet č. 2 a moll, autor věnoval Antonínu Dvořákovi. Šest let po pražské premiéře (1888) se autor dočkal úspěšného provedení díla ve vídeňském Musikvereinu. Třetí kvartet zůstal nedokončen patrně v důsledku rychle se rozvíjející dirigentské kariéry skladatele a jeho nových závazků v Národním divadle. Jakkoli nevelké je Kovařovicovo kvartetní dílo svým rozsahem, nahrávka Stamicova kvarteta dokazuje, že si zaslouží mnohem více pozornosti, než jsme mu posledních sto let věnovali. Kvartety Karla Kovařovice – pozoruhodný objev po více než sto letech

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