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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: String Quintet No. 4 / Anton Bruckner: String Quintet

by Pražák Quartet, Jan Talich

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String Quintet No. 4 in G Minor, K. 516 I. Allegro 10:51
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String Quintet No. 4 in G Minor, K. 516 II. Menuetto e Trio (Allegretto) 05:14
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String Quintet No. 4 in G Minor, K. 516 III. Adagio ma non troppo 08:50
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String Quintet No. 4 in G Minor, K. 516 IV. Adagio - Allegro 09:47
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String Quintet in F Major, WAB 112 I. Gemäßigt. Moderato 09:35
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String Quintet in F Major, WAB 112 II. Scherzo. Schnell - Trio. Langsamer 05:59
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String Quintet in F Major, WAB 112 III. Adagio (ursprünglich Andante) 12:31
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String Quintet in F Major, WAB 112 IV. Finale. Lebhaft bewegt 07:35
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Meeting of the Pražák Quartet and Jan Talich on the viola through two major string quintets. First Mozart’s Quintet No. 4, completed on 16 May 1787 and one of the most important work in the chamber music production of its author. Written in G minor, it is imbued with anguish and inner torment which border on the tragic.

Then for the only great work of chamber music by Anton Bruckner, his String Quintet, finished in July 1879. It was Josef Hellmesberger, violinist, composer, pedagogue and Bruckner’s superior who asked him to compose a string quartet. Instead, Bruckner composed a quintet, but on examining the score Hellmesberger found the scherzo too difficult for the performers; Bruckner then composed a less demanding Intermezzo, in the same key, as an alternative to the scherzo. The great symphonist won a resounding success with the public with his quintet; a mine of musical ideas is deployed there as well for the polyphony, the work of the thematic motifs, the colors and the voices of the various instruments with audacious modulations, reversals of themes and changes in half tones, making this score “one of the most idiosyncratic, yet profound chamber music works since Beethoven” according to Robert Simpson.

Awards: Choc by Le Monde de la Musique, Recommended by Classica, 5 by Diapason

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released August 1, 1997

Pražák Quartet - Ensemble

Jan Talich - Viola

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The Pražák Quartet, one of today´s leading string quartets, was founded in 1972 by students at the Prague Conservatory.

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