Dvorak: String Quartet No. 14

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a vibrant and wonderfully focused performance… The embraces at the end suggested that for the performers, too, it had been equally special. — The Guardian

Release Date: 27th Mar 2006
Catalogue No: AV2092
Label: Avie
Length: 75 minutes

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Haydn: String Quartet, Op. 54 No. 2 in C major

Work length19:52

$4.00

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Szymanowski Quartet

Part I

Track length6:59

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$1.40

Part II

Track length3:33

$1.00

$1.40

Part III

Track length3:41

$1.00

$1.40

Part IV

Track length5:39

$1.00

$1.40

Bacewicz: String Quartet No. 4

Work length22:39

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Szymanowski Quartet

Part I

Track length9:54

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$2.10

Part II

Track length6:25

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$1.40

Part III

Track length6:20

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$1.40

Dvořák: String Quartet No. 14 in A flat major, Op. 105 (B193)

Work length33:22

$5.50

$7.70

Szymanowski Quartet

Part I

Track length8:13

$1.50

$2.10

Part II

Track length6:17

$1.00

$1.40

Part III

Track length8:18

$1.50

$2.10

Part IV

Track length10:34

$1.50

$2.10

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This is the debut recording by former BBC New Generation Artist the Szymanowski Quartet, performing three contrasting works that perfectly demonstrate these young instrumentalists’ immense charisma and countless fine qualities, in the elegance of Haydn to the rustic hues of Dvorák, and the folk-tinged neo-classicism of their Polish compatriot Grazyna Bacewicz who was a protégé of the ensemble’s namesake. What links these three very different works is that they were written by composers who knew the medium from the inside; all were performers in quartets at some point during their careers.

The Szymanowski Quartet joins a distinguished roster of young artists introduced by Avie Records over the years. Since establishing themselves in Warsaw in 1995, the ensemble has won numerous international awards, including the 2005 Karol Szymanowski Award, marking the first time a string quartet had received the honour. The Quartet has performed throughout the world, at the BBC Proms, City of London, Bath and Schleswig-Holstein Festivals, in London’s Wigmore Hall, New York’s Carnegie Hall, and tours in France, Germany and Australia. Since 2000, the Szymanowski Quartet has been in Residence at the Musikhochschule in Hanover, Germany.

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a vibrant and wonderfully focused performance… The embraces at the end suggested that for the performers, too, it had been equally special.

Dvorak: String Quartet No. 14

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