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Title: CD: Haas & Krasa: String Quartets Pavel Haas, Hans Krasa |
| The excellent performances by the Hawthorne Quartet have put forward the strongest
possible case for a further reappraisal of these composers...If you have any interest
in Czech music at all (or even if you don't for that matter!) I strongly urge you to
explore this thoroughly worthy and rewarding issue.
Gramophone Magazine, Michael Stewart
Haas and Krása, both born in 1899, produced music of vision, humor and poignancy,
much of which is touched by genius. The latest addition to Decca's 'Entartete Musik'
series of music suppressed by the Third Reich, which features string quartets by the
two composers, is a revelation. The Hawthorne String Quartet plays this music with a
passion and feeling for idiom which radiates from every bar. Excellently recorded and
presented, this is an issue which no one who cares about 20th-century music can
afford to ignore.
BBC Music Magazine, Jan Smaczny; Pavel Haas: String Quartet no. 2, op.7 (1925),
String Quartet no. 3, op. 15 (1938)
Hans Krása: String Quartet (1921) |
| Our Price: $15.00 |
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