Bohuslav Martinu: Streichquartette Nr.1-7 auf 3 CDs

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This complete collection of Bohuslav Martinu's string quartets was recorded in the years 1979-1983, at the peak of the Panocha Quartet's career. Martinu's quartets were written over the entire span of his life, and each of them is a world unto itself. The Impressionistic "French" Quartet, and the Quartet No. 4 (Paris, 1937) were written in the period between the World Wars. Martinu's unique compositional identity appears for the first time, however, in the Quartet No. 2 (1925). The Quartet No. 5 and Janacek's Intimate Letters have much in common, including their romantic dimension and their passion born of an inner pressure. After the Quartet No. 6 (1946), which in a way parallels Dvorak's work during his soujourn in America, Martinu brings his quartet work to a climax with his seventh piece, the Concerto da camera, a miniature full of inner contentment, as if the composer had found time for inner contemplation and meditation in this favorite chamber composition.