Friday 28 October 2011
Pavel Haas Quartet
| Veronika Jaruskova | Violin |
| Eva Karova | Violin |
| Pavel Nikl | Viola |
| Peter Jarusek | Cello |
Programme
| Pavel Haas | String Quartet No 1 in C sharp minor, Opus 3 (1920) |
| Dvořák | String Quartet No 12 in F (‘American’), Opus 96 |
| Beethoven | String Quartet No 13 in Bb, Opus 130 (‘Lieb’) with Grosse Fugue Opus 133 |
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Since winning the Paolo Borciani competition in Italy in Spring
2005, the Pavel Haas Quartet has performed at the world’s most
prestigious concert halls including Carnegie Hall, Vienna
Konzerthaus, Barcelona Palau de la Musica, BBC Proms, the Mariinsky
Concert Hall in St. Petersburg, Wigmore Hall, festivals at Lucerne,
Edinburgh and Prague, and venues in Berlin, Munich, Geneva, Madrid
and San Francisco. The Quartet recently toured Australia, the USA
and Japan, where it recorded a concert of Janácek and Haas for NHK
television.
The Quartet has recorded three award-winning CDs, receiving great acclaim from audiences and critics alike. The first recording of Janácek Quartet No.2 and Haas Quartet No.2 was voted CD of the Week by BBC Radio 3 and Chamber Choice by BBC Music Magazine. The Quartet’s second disc completed their recordings of the string quartet works by Haas and Janácek. The Gramophone described the CD as ‘musically important’. In 2010, the Quartet released their third disc: Prokofiev’s Quartets Nos. 1 & 2, which was described as “an instant classic”.
Based in Prague, the Quartet studied with some of the masters of the quartet world including members of Quartetto Italiano, Quattuor Mosaïques, Borodin Quartet and Amadeus Quartet, as well as with Walter Levin and Milan Skampa.
Latest News - October 6th 2011
The prestigious Gramophone magazine's 'Recording of the
Year' award has been won by the Pavel Haas Quartet's recording of
the Dvořák string quartets Op 106 and Op 96. Gramophone's
team of 47 critics chose this as the most outstanding of the
1,000-plus albums released in 2010 and confirms the Pavel Haas
Quartet as one of Europe's up-and-coming quartets.
'The world’s most exciting string quartet? Well, they suit the tagline better than most…Their tone is large, quasi-orchestral. They take risks; often they play fast. Above all, they play with passion.' The Times, January 2010
Video of the Pavel Haas Quartet in rehearsal