Skampa Quartet

Wigmore Hall Live: WHLIVE0019

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Skampa Quartet

Catalogue No:

WHLIVE0019

Discs:

1

Release date:

29th Oct 2007

Barcode:

5065000924195

Medium:

CD
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Skampa Quartet


Mozart:

String Quartet No. 21 in D major, K575 'Prussian No. 1'

Shostakovich:

String Quartet No. 8 in C minor, Op. 110

Smetana:

String Quartet No. 2 in D minor


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Gramophone Magazine

Janurary 2008

“Smetana's pain-wracked D minor Quartet is here give the wiry intensity and urgency it obviously demands but too rarely receives, taken to the point of roughness but never pushed over the edge.”

BBC Music Magazine

January 2008

*****

“…Mozart's final Quartet is not exactly the easiest of openers. Yet the Škampa Quartet delivers a beautifully natural and effortless account, revelling in the subtleties of contrapuntal interplay so characteristic of Mozart's last works. In Smetana's intense Second Quartet, the Škampa are particularly compelling... The second movement Polka is a notable highlight, projected with a really bold swagger.”

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