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AMERICAN QUARTETS

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Dvorák - String Quartet nr. 12 in F opus 96, Allegro ma non troppo

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Antonín Dvorák's ‘American’ quartet is the intimate counterpart of his ninth symphony ‘From the new world’. Dvorák combines Afro-American musical elements with characteristics of Bohemian folk music. In terms of melancholic intensity, the sublime Lento measures up to the famous Adagio of Samuel Barber's string quartet. In Different trains, one of the most popular string quartets of the last decades, American minimalist Steve Reich reminisces about the train trips he used to make in his childhood years between New York and Los Angeles, when at the same time in Europe, Jewish children were being transported to their deaths in ‘other trains’. Recorded testimonies of his governess and of Holocaust survivors form the basis of the melodious parts around which this moving piece is built.

Hanna Drzewiecka: violin
Elisabeth Wybou: violin
Vincent Hepp: viola
Anthony Gröger: cello

Samuel Barber (1910-1981), String quartet in B minor opus 11
Steve Reich (1936), ‘Different trains’ for string quartet and tape
Antonín Dvorák (1841-1904), String quartet No 12 in F major opus 96
‘American’