Haas / Janacek / Escher String Quartet - String Quartets (Hybr) [CD] Conductor Williams Beyond the Sea

Beyond the Sea

universal sentiments - all filtered through a prism of a uniquely personal point of view

Don't Want to Say Goodbye

I'm In Love With A Girl

Haas / Janacek / Escher String Quartet - String Quartets (Hybr) [CD] Conductor Williams Beyond the SeaWhile the concept of the programmatic and autobiographical quartet seems to have been introduced by Beethoven, nowhere has it been taken up more forcefully than in the Czech lands, as the works presented here attest. Leos Jancek's first quartet, subtitled 'Kreutzer Sonata', is based on a novella by Leo Tolstoy, which deals with such subjects as marriage, adultery and murder, all of which are evoked here by highly expressive music. The second quartet,