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Jindřich Feld: String Quartets Nos. 5 & 6, String Quintet

1/1/2008, 11 Tracks, 1:10:55

Featuring

  • Břetislav Novotný
  • Karel Přibyl
  • Lubomír Malý
  • Jan Šírc
  • Jiří Novák
  • Lubomír Kostecký
  • Milan Škampa
  • Jan Talich Sr.
  • Antonín Kohout
  • Václav Remeš
  • Vlastimil Holek
  • Josef Klusoň
  • Michal Kaňka
  • Prague City Quartet
  • Smetana Quartet
  • Pražák Quartet
  • Jindrich Feld

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Performer Biography

The Pražák Quartet, formed by students at the Prague Conservatory, specializes in the works of the Second Viennese School (Schoenberg, Berg, Webern) and Czech composers.

Source: Booklet

Composer Biography

Feld studied violin and viola with his father, a renowned pedagogue in the Czech school founded by Otakar Ševčik.

Source: Booklet

Composition History

The album is dedicated to the memory of Jindřich Feld, with whom the album's author, Pierre E Barbier, founded the PRAGA label in 1992 to promote Czech music.

Source: Booklet

Performer Biography

The Smetana Quartet, founded in 1940, became the most famous ensemble in Czechoslovakia and was given Italian instruments by the State in 1972.

Source: Booklet

Composer Biography

Jindřich Feld, born in Prague in 1925, was considered one of the leading Czech composers of his generation.

Source: Booklet

Recording & Production

This album features live recordings of the French premieres of three of Jindřich Feld's works, performed in his presence by the musicians to whom they were dedicated.

Source: Booklet

Composer's Artistic Vision

Feld believed that 'serious music should not only arouse great humanistic sentiment but also maintain a sense of beauty, pleasure and joy'.

Source: Booklet

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