Dvořák: 'American Quartet' and Quintet

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Often performances, understandably, concentrate on the outgoing qualities of [the Quintet and the ‘American’], but the Škampa Quartet is alive to their underlying soulfulness. Nor do they neglect... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2017, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 30th Jun 2017
Catalogue No: CHRCD110
Label: Champs Hill Records
Length: 61 minutes

Gramophone Magazine

August 2017

Editor's Choice
The Times Records of the Year

2017

Dvořák: String Quartet No. 12 in F major, Op. 96 'American'

Work length27:17

$5.00

$7.00

Skampa Quartet

I. Allegro

Track length10:28

$1.50

$2.10

II. Lento

Track length7:07

$1.50

$2.10

III. Molto vivace

Track length4:08

$1.00

$1.40

IV. Vivace

Track length5:34

$1.00

$1.40

Dvořák: String Quintet No. 3 in E flat major, Op. 97 'American'

Work length33:52

$5.50

$7.70

Krzysztof Chorzelski
Skampa Quartet

I. Allegro

Track length9:41

$1.50

$2.10

II. Allegro vivo

Track length5:54

$1.00

$1.40

III. Larghetto

Track length10:03

$1.50

$2.10

IV. Allegro giusto

Track length8:14

$1.50

$2.10

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Following a very successful concert at the Music Room of Champs Hill, the renowned Škampa Quartet returned to Champs Hill to record this disc featuring Antonín Dvořák’s American String Quartet and Quintet Opp. 96-97, joined by violist Krzysztof Chorzelski for the latter.

The quartet talk about their choice of repertoire: “We were seduced by the charming coincidence of both opus numbers having been destined for string quartet, while the preceding work, Op.95, happens to be nothing smaller than the monumental Symphony No. 9, the ‘New World’ Symphony.” The Škampa Quartet is among the very finest of an outstanding group of current Czech string quartets that has represented their country in major Concert Halls around the world for twenty-five years.

The quartet have established a close relationship with BBC Radio 3 resulting in regular broadcasts from Wigmore Hall, St John’s Smith Square, LSO St Luke’s and the Chamber Music Proms. They have been an award-winning recording artist for Supraphon for most of the Quartet's career. They are now also among the elite artists whose performances have been selected for release on the Wigmore Hall Live label.

Reviews

November 2017

Often performances, understandably, concentrate on the outgoing qualities of [the Quintet and the ‘American’], but the Škampa Quartet is alive to their underlying soulfulness. Nor do they neglect the powerful sense of structure that underpins these seemingly spontaneous works; indeed, the symphonic breadth they bring to the first movement of the Quintet is something of a revelation.

August 2017

Throughout the American Quartet the Škampa have an ease of manner that is reminiscent of the iconic reading by the Pavel Haas Quartet...For the far less well-known American Quintet the Škampa have borrowed the Belcea’s viola player, Krzysztof Chorzelski – a classy move. He is absolutely on the same wavelength as the quartet and this is a reading that gives the music time to breathe.

July 2017

The Škampa Quartet continues to give unalloyed pleasure with their exceptional tuning and blend.

25th June 2017

The Škampa Quartet play this great chamber music with technical elan and superbly mellow tone in Dvorak’s Bohemian reminiscences.

September 2017

…the theme and variations Larghetto breathes wonderfully and once again benefits from that impeccable blend, which is caught with clarity and a touch of space at Champs Hill.

Dvořák: 'American Quartet' and Quintet

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