Zemlinsky Quartet - Antonín Dvořák: Early Works for String Quartet [4CDs] (2007)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 1,19 Gb | Total time: 04:28:20 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Praga Digitals | # 350028 | Recorded: 2006
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 1,19 Gb | Total time: 04:28:20 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Praga Digitals | # 350028 | Recorded: 2006
When Antonin Dvorák learned to compose, he did it the old-fashioned way – by composing. Although he had written numerous shorter works earlier, the 20-year-old Bohemian bestowed his Opus 1 on a three-movement String Quintet in A minor for pairs of violins and violas plus cello in 1861. The next year, he turned out his Opus 2, a four-movement String Quartet in A major, and over the next 12 years, he wrote six more string quartets. Through them, the listener can follow Dvorák's progress from a talented amateur with an inexhaustible gift for melody and little feel for form to an almost-ready-for-the-big-time composer who'd learned to tighten his structures and control his gift for melody.