Smycov kvartety – komplet – 3CD

This complete recording of Bohuslav Martins string quartets was made from 1979 to 1983, during the peak period of the Panocha Quartet, an ensemble whose artistic activity reached its fortieth anniversary in the 200809 season. Martins quartets span a long period, and each is a world of its own. The interwar works reveal an impressionistic character, as in the so-called French Quartet and the Fourth Quartet, composed in Paris in 1937. In the Second Quartet of 1925, Martins distinctive voice as a composer perhaps emerges for the first time with complete clarity. The Fifth Quartet, composed in Paris in 1938, seems related to Janeks Intimate Letters through its human background and passion arising from inner tension. After the Sixth Quartet of 1946, which appears to provide a modern parallel to Dvoks experience in America, Martin brought his quartet writing to a close with the Seventh Quartet, known as Concerto da camera, a work of inner calm and quiet reflection. This outstanding recording presents the string quartets of Bohuslav Martin in an interpretation by the Panocha Quartet.