Ullmann, Krasa, Schulhoff, Haas: String Quartets

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11 Ιουλίου 2019

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Pavel Haas:String Quartet No. 2, Op. 7 'From the Monkey Mountains'
Hans Krasa:Thema mit Variationen für Streichquartett
Erwin Schulhoff:Five Pieces for String Quartet
Viktor Ullmann:String Quartet No. 3, Op. 46

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Bennewitz Quartet (String Quartet)

The composers whose music is featured on the present album lived and worked in Czechoslovakia between the two world wars, and their fates were afflicted by the monstrous Nazi regime. Viktor Ullmann, who before WWII held the post of Kapellmeister at the New German Theatre, wrote Quartet No. 3 while he was detained at the Theresienstadt ghetto-camp. Hans Krása completed the Theme and Variations in 1936, yet he only saw it performed in Theresienstadt, along with his children’s opera Brundibár. Erwin Schulhoff’s Five Pieces reveal his zest for rhythm and dance, as well as his evidently having been inspired by the music of the Viennese salons, Italy and Spain. Pavel Haas’s Quartet No. 2, dating from 1925, serves as vivid proof of the claim that the composer was the most gifted pupil of Leoš Janácek. In October 1944, Haas, Ullmann and Krása were among the thousands of Theresienstadt prisoners transported to Auschwitz, where they would be murdered in the gas chambers. The Bennewitz Quartet launched their international career following their victories at the prestigious competition in Osaka (2005) and the Prémio Paolo Borciani in Italy (2008). Ever since they have regularly performed at the world’s most prominent venues and festivals. The music of the Theresienstadt composers has found in them splendid performers.