JANACEK DVORAK
LEIPZIG STRING QUARTET
Janacek: String Quartet Nos. 1 & 2 Dvorak: Cypresses Leipzig String Quartet • Today, the Leipzig String Quartet concertizes extensively throughout Europe, in Israel, Africa, Central and South America, Australia, Japan and Asia, including appearances at many of the major festivals. In North America, MDG CD 3071472 engagements include appearances at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall, at Carnegie Hall's quartet series in Weill Recital Hall, the 92nd St. Y, The Frick (AT) 19.98 Collection, Wolf Trap, the Library of Congress, and chamber music series in Baltimore, Boston, Cleveland, Chicago, Los Angeles, Salt Lake City, Vancouver, Ottawa, Montréal and Quebec, earning them praise for their concerts! "superbly integrated" - Washington Post "everything, but everything, was perfect" - Le Devoir, Montréal "if there is a Leipzig sound, this is it!" - New York Times “It is always well worth going on discovery tour with the LSQ, for these four musicians repeatedly venture out onto new territory” -Pizzicato • The almost seventy CDs recorded by the Leipzig String Quartet, including complete recordings of the works of Mendelssohn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Berg, Schönberg, and Webern, have been awarded countless distinctions for their “mature and finely elaborated ensemble culture” (Stereo). • Janácek first begin occupying himself with chamber music only five years before his death. Leo Tolstoy’s Kreutzer Sonata novella, a tragic story of marriage in which Beethoven’s famous work of the same name plays an important role, had been his source of inspiration. • In his second quartet he expressed himself even more personally about his radiant love for his young Muse Kamila, setting this monument to her just prior to his death in August 1928. • Antonín Dvorák told his publisher, “Think of the young man in love.” But an even more dramatic fate was behind it all – namely, his own love. • The verses once penned by a Moravian poet lay slumbering in the famous Bohemian composer’s suitcase for more than twenty years. Then in the spring of 1887 Dvorák took out his old Cypresses song cycle and transformed it into twelve string quartet movements on the love and grief of the young Dvorák, who later had to live with the fact that “his Josephina“ was his sister-in-law. Leipzig String Quartet on Tour Feb. 26 2009 Houston, TX Feb. 27 2009 Ashland, OR Feb. 28 2009 Ashland, OR Mar. 1 2009 Los Angeles, CA Mar. 4 2009 Corvallis, OR Mar. 6 2009 San José, CA Mar. 7 2009 La Jolla, CA Mar. 10 2009 Richmond, VA Mar. 11 2009 Washington, DC Mar. 13 2009 New York, NY Recent Releases by the Leipzig String Quartet on MDG MDG-CD-3071249 Dvorak: Piano Quintet Op. 81; String Quintet Op. 97 760623124926 MDG-CD-3071495 String Quartets by Wagner, Puccini, Verdi, Respighi, Humperdinck 760623149523 MDG-CD-3071359 String Quartets; works by Ravel, Milhaud & Tailleferre 760623135922 1
