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Music Mountain 2012, #8

From: Music Mountain
Series: Music Mountain 2012 Chamber Music Concerts
Length: 01:56:01

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The Amernet String Quartet with Assisting Artist Yizhak Schotten in an all Dvorak program. Read the full description.

2001_hall_small The Amernet String Quartet: Misha Vitenson, Violin; Michael Klotz, Viola; Marcia Littley, Violin; Jason Calloway, Cello; Assisting Artist Yizhak Schotten, Viola

An all Dvorak program:
STRING QUARTET IN E FLAT MAJOR, OPUS 51 (1878-1879)
-Allegro ma non troppo
-Dumka:Andante con moto;Vivace
-Romanze: Andante con moto
-Finale: Allegro assai

STRING QUARTET IN A FLAT MAJOR, OPUS 105 (1895)
-Adagio ma non troppo;Allegro appassionato
-Molto vivace
-Lento e molto cantabile
-Allegro, non tanto

VIOLA QUINTET IN E FLAT MAJOR, OPUS 97 (1893)
-Allegro non tanto
-Allegro vivo
-Larghetto
-Finale: Allegro guisto

HISTORIC ENCORE: Shostakovich: String Quartet #5 in B flat major, opus 92 played by the St. Petersberg String Quartet (partial)

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Piece Description

The Amernet String Quartet: Misha Vitenson, Violin; Michael Klotz, Viola; Marcia Littley, Violin; Jason Calloway, Cello; Assisting Artist Yizhak Schotten, Viola

An all Dvorak program:
STRING QUARTET IN E FLAT MAJOR, OPUS 51 (1878-1879)
-Allegro ma non troppo
-Dumka:Andante con moto;Vivace
-Romanze: Andante con moto
-Finale: Allegro assai

STRING QUARTET IN A FLAT MAJOR, OPUS 105 (1895)
-Adagio ma non troppo;Allegro appassionato
-Molto vivace
-Lento e molto cantabile
-Allegro, non tanto

VIOLA QUINTET IN E FLAT MAJOR, OPUS 97 (1893)
-Allegro non tanto
-Allegro vivo
-Larghetto
-Finale: Allegro guisto

HISTORIC ENCORE: Shostakovich: String Quartet #5 in B flat major, opus 92 played by the St. Petersberg String Quartet (partial)

Transcript

PROGRAM NOTES

All Dvorak Program (1841-1904)

Dvorak must be placed among the most richly gifted and versatile composers of the 19th Century. Truly, like Haydn, Mozart, and Schubert, he was of the race of those divinely blest and naively inspired leaders whose thoughts and emotions manifest themselves spontaneously in musical forms, and whose musical imagination gives itself out in an inexhaustible wealth of pure, fresh and fascinating ideas, in melody, harmony, and rhythm.
.... Otakar Sourek, Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians

STRING QUARTET IN E FLAT MAJOR, OPUS 51

Brahms had brought Dvorák together with his publisher Simrock. He had had successful tours of Germany and England. In short, Dvorák was becoming well known and was flourishing. Jean Becker of the famed Florentine Quartet asked for a work for the Quartet in the Slavic style. This was the genesis of the E Flat Quar...
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