The Pavel Haas Quartet will start the Chamber Series of Dvořák’s Prague today
Concert of the renowned string quartet today 12.9. at 20.00 in the Rudolfinum he will offer Schubert and Dvořák.
Pavel Haas Quartet is celebrating this year 20th anniversary. It was founded in 2002 and after winning the Prague Spring competition, it soon established itself on the international scene. For publishing Supraphone recorded a number of albums with works by Czech and international composers. Among other things, they received six times for their recordings Gramophone Award and other prestigious awards. Magazine BBC Music Magazine ranked the Pavel Haas Quartet among the 10 best string quartets of all time. The ensemble is named after the pupil of Leoš Janáček and the brother of the actor Hugo Haas, a Czech composer To Pavel Haas, who was murdered in Auschwitz in 1944. Currently, the ensemble plays as a composition Veronika Jarůšková (House), Mark Zwiebel (House), Luosha Fang (viola) a Peter Jarůšek (violoncello).
Their concert today as part of the festival Dvořák’s Prague will be the intersection of the concert series Dvořák’s collection AND Chamber rows festival. This year, the Pavel Haas Quartet is the curator of the Chamber Series and will start it today String Quartet No. 15 in G major Franz Schubertthe composer’s last composition of this genre.
This year, Dvořák’s Prague chamber series will welcome a total of six top ensembles from home and abroad. After the “Haas” it will continue to be the same The Juilliard String Quartet (15.9.), The Bennewitz Quartet (16.9.), The Zemlinsky Quartet (17.9.), Sedlaček’s Quartet (18.9.) a The Jerusalem Quartet (September 20). At the last concert of the chamber series on September 24, this year, a world-famous pianist will perform, among others Marta Argerichová file Ukrainian-Czech Sinfonietta managed Radek Baborák.
In the second part of this evening, the Chamber Series will actually intersect with the Dvořák Collection thanks to the performance and recording String Quartet No. 13 in G major Antonín Dvořák. It is in the same key as Schubert, but musically it is already heading towards the enchanting colors of impressionism. The project of a complete performance of all Dvořák’s string quartets will extend into the following years of the festival and culminate in 2024, when the music world will remember 120th death anniversary of this most famous Czech composer.
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